Fine n.
 1. End; conclusion; termination; extinction. [Obs.] “To see their fatal fine.”
    Is this the fine of his fines?   --Shak.
 2. A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
 3. Law (a) Feudal Law A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
 (b) Eng. Law A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
 Fine for alienation Feudal Law, a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill.
 Fine of lands, a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. --Burrill. See Concord, n., 4.
 In fine, in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.