To discover; to determine; to ascertain and declare. To announce a conclusion,as the result of judicial investigation, ui>on a disputed fact or state of facts; as ajury are said to “find a

One who discovers and takes possession of another’s personal property,which was then lost. Kincaid v. Eaton, 98 Mass. 139. 93 Am. Dec. 142.A searcher employed to discover goods imported or exported without

A decision upon a question of fact reached as the result of a judicial examinationor investigation by a court, jury, referee, coroner, etc. Williams v. Giblin, 86Wis. 648. 57 N. W. 1111;

v. To impose a pecuniary punishment or mulct. To sentence a person convictedof an offense to pay a penalty in money. Goodman v. Durant B. & L. Ass’n, 71Miss. 310. 14 South.

An abolished writ for disannulling a line levied of lands in ancientdemesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. Orig. 15.

An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading.

An old writ that lay for the release of oneimprisoned for a redisseisiti. on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222.

An absolute necessity or inevitable constraint Plowd. 94; 6 Coke, 11;Cowell.

To make or pay a fine. Bract. 100.

In old English law. The king’s fines. Fines formerly payable to theking for any contempt or offense, as where one committed any trespass, or falselydenied his own deed, or did anything In

In old English law. To fine, or pay a flue. Cowell. To end or finish a matter

Lat. An end; a fine; a boundary or terminus; a limit Also in L. Lat, a fine (q.v.)Finis est amicabilis compositio et finalis concordia ex concensu et concor- dia dominiregis vel justiciarum.

An ending; death, as the end of life. Blount; Cowell.

In the civil law. Action for regulating boundaries. The name of ail action which lay betweenthose who had lands bordering on each other, to settle disputed boundaries. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

Those that purify gold and silver, and part them by fire and water fromcoarser metals; and therefore, in the statute of 4 Hen. VII. c. 2, they are also called”parters.” Termes de

Sax. In old English law. A summoning forth to a military expedition,(i/idictio ad profevtionem militarcm.) Spelman.

Sax. A preparation to go into the army. Leg. lien. I.

Sax. In old English law. Exemption from military service. Spelman.

In old English law. A fine for refusing military service, {mulcta detrcotuutis mil ilium.) Spelman.A fine imposed for murder committed In the army; an acquittance of such fine. Fleta,lib. 1, c. 47.

The effect of combustion. The Juridical meaning of the word does not differfrom the vernacular. 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 231, et seq.