amercement
Example Sentences
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The first statute of Westminster, passed sixty years after Magna Carta, treats the fine and amercement as synonymous, as follows.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
And in many other statutes passed after Magna Carta, the terms fine and amercement seem to be used indifferently, in prescribing the punishment for offences.
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
Similarly at Worcester the “tensures” shared with the citizens the right to the assistance of the afferors in cases of wrongful or excessive amercement.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
Refusing to do so, he was thereupon summoned to come into the Police Court on the glorious Fourth to show cause why he ought not to pay the amercement.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
This was disallowed by ordinance on pain of amercement, and bakers were admonished, in lieu of such payments, to increase the size of the loaf "to the profit of the public."
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
