FINEM FACERE

finem facere (fI-n[schwa]m fay-s[schwa]-ree). [Latin] Hist. 1. To make a composition or compromise; to relinquish a claim in exchange for consideration. “In the thirteenth century the king’s justices wield a wide and a ‘common law’ power of ordering that an offender be kept in custody. They have an equally wide power of discharging him upon […]