Fine for endowment
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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; Mozley & Whitley.
Fine sur cognisance 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 acknowledged in court a former foeffment or gift in possession to have been made by him to the plaintiff.
2 Bl. Comm. 352.