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Fine, a sum of money or mulct 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 sum of money paid by a tenant at his entrance into his land; or for the renewal of a lease; and see FINES IN COPYHOLDS.An assurance by matter of record, founded on a supposed previously existing right, abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74). In every fine, which was the compromise of a fictitious suit and resembled the transactio of the Romans, there was a suit supposed, in which the person who was to recover the thing was called the plaintiff, conusee, or recognisee, and the person who parted with the thing the deforceant, conusor, or recognisor. It was termed a fine for its worthiness, and the peace and quiet it brought with it'finis fructus exitus et effectus legis. There are five essential parts to the levying...
Fines in copyholds
Fines in copyholds. A fine which is preserved by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 6, is a sum of money payable by custom to the lord. There are three classes of fines:- (1) those due on the change of the lord; (2) those on the change of the tenant; and (3) those for a licence to the tenant to do certain acts.When the fine is due on the change of the lord, such change must be by the act of God, and not in consequence of any act of the party. It can therefore be only claimed on the death of the lord.When it is due on the change of the tenant, it matters not whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable.Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower the tenant to do certain acts, as to demise, etc., are rare. There must be a special custom to support such fine, for, by general custom, fines are due only on admissions.The admission fine is prima facie uncertain and arbitrary, or rather arbitrable, unless...
fine
fine [Anglo-French fin fine & Medieval Latin finis end, boundary, agreement, payment for release or privilege, monetary penalty, from Latin finis end, boundary] 1 : a sum imposed as punishment for an offense compare restitution 2 : a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action vt fined fin·ing : to impose a fine on : punish by fine ...
Don grant et render, a fine sur
Don grant et render, a fine sur, was a double fine, comprehending the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., and the fine sur concessit, and might have been used to create particular limitations of estates; whereas the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., conveyed nothing but an absolute estate, either of inheritance or at least of freehold, 1 Steph. Com....
Executed fine
Executed fine, the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il a de son done; or a fine upon acknowledgment of the right of the cognizee, as that which he has of the gift of the cognizor. Abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74)....
Proclamation, Fine with
Proclamation, Fine with. To render a fine more universally public and less liable to be levied by fraud or covin, it was directed by 4 Hen. 7, c. 24 (in confirmation of a previous statute), that a fine after engrossing should be openly and solemnly read and proclaimed in count (during which all pleas should cease), sixteen times, viz., four times in the term in which it was made, and four times in each of the three succeeding terms, which was reduced to once in each term by 31 Eliz. c. 2, and these proclamations were endorsed on the record. Abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833....
Post fine
Post fine, a duty otherwise called the King's silver, formerly paid to the King for the licentia concordandi, or leave to agree the suit, on the levying of a fine, 2 Bl. Com. 350. See FINE....
Pr'fine
Pr'fine, the fee paid on suing out the writ of covenant, on levying fines, before the fine was passed, 2 Bl. Com. 350....
fine tooth
having fine teeth set close together as a fine tooth comb...
Daily fine
Daily fine, means a fine for each day on which an offence is continued after conviction therefor. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (9 of 1910), s. 2 (d)]...
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