Fine For Alienation

A sum of money which a tenant by knight's service, or a tenant in capite by socage tenure, 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. Comm. 71, 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 other feudal right, by the French Revolution.