FINE FOR ALIENATION

By SovConn | January 23, 2016

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]

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