Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

partes finis nihil habuerunt

. [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 in nowise belongs to him, his fine is of no effect; and may at any time be set aside . . . by pleading that 'partes finis nihil habuerunt.' " 2 William Blaekstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 356-57 (1765).