A fine on alienation (see
Alienation (property law)
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to convey or transfer the property to another. Alienability is the quality of being alienable, i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be s ...
), in
feudal law
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring societ ...
, was a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant when he had occasion to make over his land to another. It is similar in nature to a
relief
Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...
, a payment made by an heir to the lord to receive his inheritance.
References
Property law
Medieval law
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