PARTES FINIS NIHIL HABUERUNT

partes finis nihil habuerunt (pahr-teez fI-nis nI-hil hab-yoo-eer-[schwa]nt). [Law Latin “the parties to the fine had nothing”] Hist. A plea to set aside a conveyance of land on grounds that the transferor did not have a sufficient ownership interest in the property to alienate it. “Yet where a stranger… officiously interferes in an estate which […]