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A settlement agreement by parties to a lawsuit which settles all the outstanding issues and puts an end to the lawsuit. There will usually be clauses with regard to the right to reopen a case based upon certain circumstances, etc. although some are final and binding where there will be mutual releases by each party agreeing that, after this settlement, all further litigation on … [Read more...] about FINAL SETTLEMENT

An obsolete writ which lay for a person who, upon conviction by jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his lands and goods redelivered to him, on obtaining favor of a sum of money, etc. Reg. Orig. 142. … [Read more...] about FINE CAPIENDO PRO TERRIS

Sax. A preparation to go into the army. Leg. Hen. I. … [Read more...] about FIRDIRINGA

A final or conclusive agreement. In the process of "levying a fine," this was a final agreement entered by the litigating parties upon the record, by permission of court, settling the title to the land, and which was binding upon them like any judgment of the court. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 70. … [Read more...] about FINALIS CONCORDIA

During the vigor of the feudal law, a fine for alienation was a sum of money which a tenant by knight's service paid to his lord for permission to alienate his right in the estate he held, to another, and by that means to substitute a new tenant for himself. 2 Bl. Com. 71, But when the tenant held land of the king, in capite, by socage tenure, he was bound to pay such a fine, … [Read more...] about FINE FOR ALIENATION