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Fine of lands
Fine Fine, n. [OE. fin, L. finis end, also in LL., a final agreement or concord between the lord and his vassal; a sum of money paid at the end, so as to make an end of a transaction, suit, or prosecution; mulct; penalty; cf. OF. fin end, settlement, F. fin end. See Finish, and cf. Finance.] 1. End; conclusion; termination; extinction. [Obs.] ``To see their fatal fine.' --Spenser. Is this the fine of his fines? --Shak. 2. A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct. 3. (Law) (a) (Feudal Law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. --Spelman. (b) (Eng. Law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. Fine for alienation (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill. Fine of lands, a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. --Burrill. See Concord, n., 4. In fine, in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.

Meaning of Fine of lands from wikipedia

- A fine of lands, also called a final concord, or simply a fine, was a species of property conveyance which existed in England (and later in Wales) from...
- alienation, a sum of money paid to a feudal lord when a tenant had occasion to make over his land to another Fine of lands, an obsolete type of land conveyance...
- conveyance) known as a fine of lands or final concord. The procedure was followed from around 1195 until 1833, and the considerable body of resulting records...
- dealings or certain debts of money, retained in a few and dwindling number of jurisdictions Fine of lands, or final concord, a type of property conveyance in...
- Great Britain and Ireland. It abolished the two species of property conveyance known as fines of lands (or final concords) and common recoveries. The act is...
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- the son of Robert de Barkham, levied a fine of lands in Barkham. In 1335, the lands p****ed to the Bullock family, who held it until the end of the 16th...
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