- Entry Fine
- ♦ Payment, set at the lord's discretion, by an unfree heir, heiress, or purchaser on entering an unfree tenement.(Waugh, Scott. England in the Reign of Edward III, 238)
Medieval glossary. 2014.
Entry Fine
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