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Fine Capiendo Pro Terris

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Fine capiendo pro terris, etc., an obsolete writ which lay for a person who, upon conviction by a jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his land and goods redelivered to him on obtaining favour of a sum of money, etc., Reg. Brev. 142.

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