KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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which the lands In question become, or are acknowledged to foe, the right of one of the parties. 2 Bl. Comm. 349; Christy v. Burch, 25 Fla. 942, 2 South. 258; First Nat. Bank v. Roberts, 9 Mont. 323, 23 Pac. 718; Hitz T. Jenks, 123 U. S. 297, 8 Sup. Ct. 143, 31 L. Ed. 156; McGregor v. Comstock, 17 N. Y. 166. Fines were abolished in England by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, substituting a disen tailing deed, (q. v.) The party who parted with the land, by acknowledging the right of the other, was said to levy the fine, and was called the "cog nizor" or "conusor," while the party who re covered or received the estate was termed the "cognizee" or "conusee," and the fine was A fine is a mon ey payment made by a feudal tenant to his lord. The most usual fine is that payable on the admittance of a new tenant, but there are also due in some manors fines upon aliena tion, on a license to demise the lands, or on the death of the lord, or other events. El ton, Copyh. 159; De Peyster v. Michael, 6 N. Y. 495, 57 Am. Dec. 470. —Executed fine, see .EXECUTED.— Fine and recovery act. The English statutes 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, for abolishing fines and recov? eries. 1 Steph. Comm. 514, et seq.— Fine for alienation. A fine anciently payable upon the alienation of a feudal estate and substitu tion of a new tenant. It was payable to the lord by all tenants holding by knight's service or tenants in oapite by socage tenure. Abolish ed by 12 Car. II. c. 24. See 2 Bl. Comm. 71, 89.— Fine for endowment. A fine anciently payable to the lord by the widow of a tenant, without which she could not be endowed of her husband's lands. Abolished under Henry I., and by Magna Charta. 2 Bl. Comm. 135; Moz ley & Whitley.— Fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done. A fine upon acknowledgment of the right of the cognizee as that which he hath of the gift of the cognizor. By this the deforciant acknowl edged in court a former foeffment or gift in possession to have been made by him to the plaintiff. 2 Bl. Comm. 352.— Fine sur cog nizance de droit tanturn. A fine upon ac knowledgment 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 foeffment supposed. 2 Bl. Comm. 353; 1 Steph. Comm. 519.— Fine sur concessit. A fine 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 cognizee an estate de novo, 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 es tates, whereas the fine sur cognisance de droit come ceo, etc., conveyed nothing but an abso lute estate, either of inheritance, or at least free hold. In this last species of fines, the cognizee, after the right 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. In criminal law. Pecuniary punishment Imposed by a lawful tribunal upon a person said to be levied to him. In the law of tenure.

(as the property or money which a state now owns) or dynamically, (as its income, revenue, or public resources.) Also the revenue or wealth of an Individual. A person employed in the economical management and application of public money; one skilled in the manage ment of financial affairs. FIND. To discover; to determine; to as certain and declare. To announce a conclu sion, as the result of judicial investigation, upon a disputed fact or state of facts; as a jury are said to "find a will." To determine a controversy in favor of one of the parties ; as a jury "find for the plaintiff." State v. Bulkeley, 61 Conn. 287, 23 Atl. 186, 14 L. R. A. 657; Weeks v. Trask, 81 Me. 127, 16 Atl. 413, 2 L. R. A. 532; Southern Bell Tel., etc^ Co. v. Watts, 66 Fed. 460, 13 C. C A. 579. One who discovers and takes possession of another's personal property, which was then lost. Kincaid v. Eaton, 98 Mass. 139, 93 Am. Dec. 142. A searcher employed to discover goods im ported or exported without paying custom. Jacob. A decision upon a question of fact reached as the result of a judicial ex amination or investigation by a court, jury, referee, coroner, etc. Williams v. Giblin, 86 Wis. 648, 57 N. W. 1111; Rhodes v. United States Bank, 66 Fed. 514, 13 C. C. A. 612, 34 L. R. A. 742. —Finding of fact. A determination of a fact by the court, such fact being averred by one party and denied by the other, and the deter mination being based on the evidence in the case; also the answer of the jury to a specif ic interrogatory propounded to them as to the existence or non-existence of a fact in issue. Miles v. McCallan, 1 Ariz. 491, 3 Pac. 610; Murphy v. Bennett, 68 Cal. 528, 9 Pac. 738; Morbey v. Railway Co., 116 Iowa, 84, 89 N. W. 105.— General and special findings. Where issues of fact in a case are submitted to the court by consent of parties to be tried with out a jury, the "finding" is the decision of the court as to the disputed facts, and it may be either general or special, the former being a general statement that the facts are in favor of such a party or entitle him to judgment, the latter being a specific setting forth of the ulti mate facts established by the evidence and which are determinative of the judgment which must be given. See Rhodes v. United States Nat. Bank, 66 Fed. 514, 13 C. C. A. 612, 34 IA R. A. 742; Searcy County v. Thompson. 66 Fed. 94. 13 C. C. A. 349: Humphreys v. Third Nat. Bank, 75 Fed. 856, 21 C. C. A. 538. To impose a pecuniary punish ment or mulct To sentence a person con victed of an offense to pay a penalty in money. Goodman v. Durant B. & L. Ass'n, 71 Miss. 310, 14 South. 146; State v. Belle, 92 Iowa, 258, 60 N. W. 525. FINE, n. In conveyancing. An amica ble composition or agreement of a suit, either actual or fictitious, by leave of the court, by FINANCIER. FINDER. FINDING. FINE, v.