Dictionary - Definition of FINE FOR ALIENATION


Part of Speech	Definition
Expression	1. (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Common Expressions: FINE FOR ALIENATION

Expressions	Definition
Fine for alienation	(Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
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Expressions	Domain	Definition
Fine for alienation	Law	FINE FOR ALIENATION. 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, as well as in the case of knight service. 2 Bl. Com. 89. These fines are now abolished. In France, a similar demand from the tenant, made by the lord when the former alienated his estate, was called lods et vente. This imposition was abolished, with nearly every feudal right, by the French revolution. (references)
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