fine sb. (3 extension of the sense ‘pecuniary mulct’)
1.
end Ado I. i. 255 [247] “the is, . . . I will live a
bachelor,”
All'sW. IV. iv. 35,
Ham. V. i. 113
“is this the of his
f-s”
; esp. in the phrase “in
,”
in the end, finally All'sW. III. vii.
19, 1H6 I. iv.
34, Ham. II. ii. 69, Lr. II. i. 50;—
All'sW. IV. iv. 35
“the f-'s the
crown,”
probably a translation of the Latin ‘Finis coronat opus’.
2.
amicable agreement of
a fictitious suit for the possession of lands,
formerly in vogue where the ordinary modes of
conveyance were not available or equally efficacious
Ham. V. i. 112; “
and recovery,” means by which an estate
tail was converted into a fee-simple, hence =
absolute ownership Wiv. IV. ii.
229, quibblingly in Err. II. ii. 76.
