Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FINE PRO RED1SSEISINA, ETC. 495

FIRE

to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading. PINE PRO REDISSEISINA CAPI ENDO. An old writ that lay for the release of one imprisoned for a redisseisin, on pay ment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222. PINE SUB COGNIZANCE DE DROIT COME CEO QUE IL AD DE SON DONE. A fine upon acknowledg ment of the right of the cognizee as that which he hath of the gift of the cognizor. By this the deforciant acknowledged in court a former foeffment or gift in possession to have been made by him to the plaintiff. 2 Bl. Comm. 852. FINE SUE COGNIZANCE DE DROIT TANTUM. A fine upon acknowl edgment of the right merely, and not with the circumstance of a preceding gift from the cognizor. This was commonly used to pass a reversionary interest which was in the cognizor, of which there could be no foeff ment supposed. 2 Bl. Comm. 353; 1 Steph. Comm. 519. PINE SUR CONCESSIT. A flne upon concessit, (he hath granted.) A species of fine, where the cognizor, in order to make an end of disputes, though he acknowledged no precedent right, yet granted to the cog nizee an estate de nooo, usually for life or years, by way of supposed composition. 2 Bl. Comm. 353; 1 Steph. Comm. 519. FINE SUR DONE GRANT ET RENDER. A double fine, comprehending the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo and the fine sur concessit. It might be used to convey particular limitations of estates, whereas the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., conveyed nothing but an abso lute estate, either of inheritance, or at least freehold. In this last species of fines, the cognizee, after the light was acknowledged to be in him, granted back again or rendered to the cognizor, or perhaps to a stranger, some other estate in the premises. 2 Bl. Comm. 353. FINE-FORCE. An absolute necessity or inevitable constraint. Plowd. 94; 6 Coke, 11; Cowell. FINEM FACERE. To make or pay a fine. Bract. 106. FINES LE ROY. In old English law. The king's fines. Fines formerly payable to the king for any contempt or offense, as where one committed any trespass, or false

ly denied his own deed, or did anything in contempt of law. Termes de la Ley. PINIRE. In old English law. To fine, or pay a fine. Cowell. To end or finish a matter. FINIS. An end; a fine; a boundary or terminus; a limit. Finis est amicabilis oompositio et flnalis concordia ex consensu et concor dia domini regis vel justiciarum. Glan. lib. 8, c. 1. A fine is an amicable settlement and decisive agreement by consent and agree ment of our lord, the king, or his justices. Finis flnem litibus imponit. A fine puts an end to litigation. 3 Inst. 78. Finis rei attendendus est. 3 Inst. 51. The end of a thing is to be attended to. Finis unius diei est principium alteri us. 2 Bulst. 305. The end of one day is the beginning of another. FINITIO. An ending; death, as the end of life. Blount; Cowell. FINIUM REGUNDORUM ACTIO. In the civil law. Action for regulating boundaries. The name of an action which lay between those who had lands bordering on each other, to settle disputed boundaries. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 499. FINORS. Those that purify gold and silver, and part them by fire and water from coarser metals; and therefore, in the statute of 4 Hen. VII. c. 2, they are also called "parters." Termes de la Ley. FIRDFARE. Sax. In old English law. A summoning forth to a military expeditiou, (indictio ad profectionem militarem.) Spel man. FIRDIRINGA. Sax. A preparation to go into the army. Leg. Hea. I. FIRDSOCNE. Sax. In old English law. Exemption from military service. Spelman. FIRDWITE. In old English law. A fine for refusing military service, (mulcta detrectantis militiam.) Spelman. A tine imposed for murder committed in the army; an acquittance of such fine. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47. FIRE. The effect of combustion. The juridical meaning of the word does not differ from the vernacular. 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 231, et seq.

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