FINESUR COGNIZANCE DE DROIT TANTUM
fine sur cognizance de droit tantum (fIn s<<schwa>>r kon-<<schwa>>-z<<schwa>>nts
d<<schwa>> droyt tan-t<<schwa>>m). [Law French “fine upon acknowledgment of the right
merely”] Hist. A fine of conveyance that does not acknowledge a prior conveyance of land. • This
type of fine was used to convey reversionary interests — that is, interests that did not require
acknowledgment of an earlier livery of seisin. See FINE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]