fine (n.)
[legal] agreement to transfer land possession
CE II.ii.79[Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse, of a man recovering his hair] May he not do it by fine and recovery?
Ham V.i.103[Hamlet to Horatio, imagining the owner of a skull] a great buyer of land, with his ... fines [pun: 104, sense 1]
MW IV.ii.199[Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Falstaff] If the devil have him not in fee simple, with fine and recovery, he will never ... attempt us again [i.e. with everything transferred to him]
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