Fine for alienation
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A fine anciently payable upon the alienation of a feudal estate and substitution of a new tenant. It was payable to the lord by all tenants holding by knight's service or tenants in capite by socage tenure.
Abolished by 12 Car. II. c. 24. See 2 Bl. Comm. 71, 89.