Fine Tooth - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fine toothfine tooth
having fine teeth set close together as a fine tooth comb...
fretsaw
A narrow bladed fine toothed saw for cutting curved outlines...
Gat toothed
Goat toothed having a lickerish tooth lustful wanton...
Fine
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...
Gap toothed
Having conspicuous interstices between the teeth as his gap toothed grin...
malposed tooth
A tooth that has grown in a faulty position...
Saw toothed
Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw serrate...
Sheriff-tooth
Sheriff-tooth, a tenure by the service of providing entertainment for the sheriff at his county courts; a common tax, formerly levied for the sheriff's diet....
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 ...
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