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fine non capiendo pro pulchre placitando (non kap-ee-en-doh proh p<<schwa>>l-kree plas-<<schwa>>-tan-doh). [Latin “a fine not to be taken for pleading fairly”] Hist. A writ prohibiting court officers from taking fines for fair pleading (i.e., beaupleader).[Blacks Law 8th]

finem facere (fI-n<<schwa>>m fay-s<<schwa>>-ree). [Latin] Hist. 1. To make a composition or compromise; to relinquish a claim in exchange for consideration. “In the thirteenth century the king’s justices wield a wide and a ‘common law’ power of ordering that an offender be kept in custody. They have an equally wide power of discharging him upon…

fine for endowment.Hist. A fee paid by a widow of a tenant to the tenant’s lord. • If it was not paid, the widow could not be endowed of her husband’s land.[Blacks Law 8th]

fine for alienation.Hist. A fee paid by a tenant to the lord upon the alienation of a feudal estate and substitution of a new tenant. • It was payable by all tenants holding by knight’s service or tenants in capite by socage tenure. — Often shortened to fine.[Blacks Law 8th]

fine capiendo pro terris (kap-ee-en-doh proh ter-is). [Latin “a fine to be taken for lands”] Hist. A writ that an imprisoned felon could use in some circumstances to obtain release from jail and to recover lands and goods taken during imprisonment.[Blacks Law 8th]

fine annullando levato de tenemento quod fuit de antiquo dominico (a-n<< schwa>>-lan-doh l<<schwa>>-vay-to dee ten-<<schwa>>-men-toh kwod fyoo-it dee an-tI-kwoh d<<schwa>>-min-<<schwa>>-koh). [Latin “a fine to be annulled levied from a tenement which was of ancient demesne”] Hist. A writ for disannulling a conveyance of land in ancient demesne to the lord’s prejudice.[Blacks Law 8th]

Fine and Recovery Act.Hist. An English statute, enacted in 1833, that abolished the use of fines as a method of conveying title to land. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 74. See FINE (1).[Blacks Law 8th]

fineable. See FINABLE.[Blacks Law 8th]

fine,n.1. An amicable final agreement or compromise of a fictitious or actual suit to determine the true possessor of land. • The fine was formerly used as a form of conveyance to disentail an estate. — Also termed final concord; finalis concordia. See FOOT OF THE FINE. “A peculiar and persistent use of the writ…

finding of fact.A determination by a judge, jury, or administrative agency of a fact supported by the evidence in the record, usu. presented at the trial or hearing <he agreed with the jury’s finding of fact that the driver did not stop before proceeding into the intersection>. — Often shortened to finding. See FACT-FINDER. Cf.…