- fine sur cognizance de droit tantum
- /fayn sar kagnayzans da droyt teentam/ A fine upon acknowledgment of the right merely, and not with the circumstance of a preceding gift from the cognizor. This was commonly used to pass a reversionary interest which was in the cognizor, of which there could be no feoffment supposed. 2 BLComm. 353
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.