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Finalis Concordia

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. In old conveyancing. A final concord; a fine of lands. Talis coneordia finalis dieitur, eo quod finem imponit negotio, odea tH neutra pars litigantium ah eo de ccetero poterit reeedere. Such a concord is called final because it puts an end to the matter, so that neither of the litigating parties can afterwards recede from it. Olanv, lib.

9, c. 3.

Dieitur finalis Concordia, et ideo finalis quia imponit finem liiibus. It is called a final concord because it puts an end to suits. Bract, fbl. 435 b« These* passages are descriptive of a fine when it was in the form of an R«tual suit.