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Fine

imposed upon an offender, also called a ransom. See PENALTY. An amicable final agreement or compromise of a fictitious or actual suit to determine the true possessor of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 646. A

John Doe

John Doe, the name which was usually given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ejectment; he was sometimes called Goodtitle. See EJECTMENT. So

Romance

A species of fictitious writing originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects and afterward in prose such as the tales of

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Land flip

transaction in which a piece of property is purchased for one price and immediately sold, usu. to a fictitious entity, for a much higher price, to dupe a lender or later purchaser into thinking that the property

Doe, John

Doe, John, the fictitious plaintiff in ejectment, whose services have been dispensed with since the abolition of the fiction by the Common

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

mischief introduced by this statute, viz., the creation of inalienable estates tail, was got rid of by the fictitious proceedings of common recoveries, which were abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm.

Foreign Attachment

London Joint Stock Bank, (1881) 6 App Cas 393, which exempts corporations from the process, and decides that fictitious summonses render it invalid. These decisions have had the effect of reducing foreign attachment to little more than

Forgery

instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34. The act of fraudulently

In jure cessio

In jure cessio means a fictitious trial held to transfer ownership of property. At trial, the transferee appeared before a praetor and asserted ownership

Inheritance

of s. 20 of the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833. (10) Inheritance is in some sort a legal and fictitious continuation of the personality of the dead man, for the representation is in some sort identified by the

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