Fine For Endowment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An old English law grounded on the feudal exactions that a woman could not be endowed without a fine paid to the lord of the tenement. Abolished by Henry I., and afterwards by Magna Charta (chapter 7).
2 Bl. Comm. 135.