Fine
A fine is money paid as a financial punishment for the commission of minor crimes or as the settlement of a claim. A synonym is mulct.Common examples of fines are monies paid for violations of traffic laws. Fines can also be used as a form of tax.
Do not confuse fines with bail.
A fine for alienation, in feudal law[?], is a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. A fine of lands is 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.
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flaw--would be free from very many, if not all, of the petty
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youth, and teeth drop out in mere childhood.
evidence enough of inherited weakness or flaw. How could a person who had
hundred and ten? Death is not a supernatural event; it is an event of the
efforts of the human race, to a period far more distant from the date of
often been debated in my mind whether death is or is not wholly preventable;
causes of decay, death might not also be altogether eliminated.
If we consider ourselves by the analogy of animals, trees, and
in long process of time the tissues must wither. Suppose an ideal man, free
be prolonged to several centuries, in the end the natural body
not just, and therefore the conclusions it points to are not tenable.
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true natural state--he is immeasurably stronger. No animal approaches to the
horse, he can outrun the swiftest stag, he can bear extremes of heat and
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