amercement
Example Sentences
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A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
She desired still to bequeath it to Pierre, not only because of her great kindness for him, but as a sort of self-imposed amercement upon her house for the death of his father.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
There were special privileges surrounding tenancies of these lands, such as freedom from tolls and duties, exemption from danegeld and amercement, from sitting on juries, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
