Payment above or below the value of the actual damage inflicted is considered a fine rather than a payment of reparations: Ketuvot 41a-b; Bava Kama 15b; Sanhedrin 3a-b
Fines are a unique form of liability (a chiddush) and their rules are different from the rules regarding restitution payments: Ketuvot 34a-b, 38a-b, 46b
Fines do not vary in amount based on the parties involved: Ketuvot 40a
Whether one pays a fine if he admits the crime, himself: Ketuvot 41a, 42a; Bava Kama 14b-15a, 15b; Bava Metzia 3b, 34a; Makkot 2b
Whether one pays a fine if he is sued for the crime, he denies it with an oath, and then he admits it: Ketuvot 42a
Where one admits the crime, but then witnesses come who would have incriminated him without his admission: Bava Kama 14b-15a
Does one bring a korban for swearing falsely if one is accused of owing a fine, and he swears falsely denying liability for the fine, before then admitting it: Ketuvot 42a-43a
One who rapes a convert while she is a minor still pays the fine, even though she might renounce her conversion and return to nochri status: Ketuvot 11a
Whether we may make the psychological assumption that a litigant's claim is for something with a fixed value (like a fine), rather than something with an undetermined value (like restitution): Ketuvot 43a
Whether we may make the psychological assumption that a litigant's claim is for something a litigant cannot easily avoid paying, as opposed to a fine, where admitting guilt can terminate the duty to pay: Ketuvot 43a
