| 单词 | fine and recovery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfine and recovery P5. fine and recovery: the practice of commencing and then formally compromising a fictitious or collusive lawsuit to effect a curtailment of entail or the transfer of full ownership and title of land from one party to another; an agreement made in this way. Cf. sense 9b, recovery n. 2a. Now historical.This practice was abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act of 1833. ΚΠ a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. N.ii I Haue vnder correction partlye set out..certaine fourmes of suche estates by copy hold, and specially the leauiyng of a Fyne and recouerie in a custumarie Court for Barryng of an Entaile of Custumarie Landes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 197 If the diuell haue him not in fee-simple, with fine and recouery [etc.] . View more context for this quotation a1707 A. Thornton Autobiogr. (1875) 80 The articles of agreement.., that all his estate should be passed by fine and recovery. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 110 Lord Pembroke petitioned the House of Lords for a bill to set aside an amendment made in a fine and recovery, by the Court of Great Sessions in Wales. 1986 S. R. Frey & M. J. Morton New World, New Roles iv. 100 In England, transfer of the title to such land was accomplished by the complicated practice of fine and recovery: by a suit, either actual or fictitious, the wife formally surrendered her ownership rights and relinquished legal title to the marital property of her husband. < as lemmas |
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