FINESUR COGNIZANCE DE DROIT COME CEO QUE IL AD DE SON DONE

fine sur cognizance de droit, come ceo que il ad de son done (fIn s<<schwa>>r

kon-<<schwa>>-z<<schwa>>nts d<<schwa>> droyt, kom say-oh kweel ad d<<schwa>>sawni

dawin). [Law French “a fine upon acknowledgment of the right, as that which he has of his gift”]

Hist. The most common fine of conveyance, by which the defendant (also called the deforciant)

acknowledged in court that he had already conveyed the property to the cognizee. • This form of

conveyance took the place of an actual livery of seisin. See FINE(1).

“But, in general, the first species of fine, ‘sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc.,’ is the most

used, as it conveys a clean and absolute freehold, and gives the cognizee a seisin in law, without

an actual livery; and is therefore called a fine executed, whereas the others are but executory.” 2

William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 353 (1766).[Blacks Law 8th]