amercement
Example Sentences
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Yet here, too, the wardens did not escape indirect amercement, for absolution from interdiction or excommunication often meant a payment of various court fees, which in many cases were by no means light.
From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch
Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Spooner, Lysander
The penalty of the breach of the Laws or Customes of this Land is at the pleasure of the Judg, either amercement, or imprisonment, or both.
No amercement to touch the necessary means of subsistence of a free man, the merchandise of a merchant, or the agricultural tools of a villein; earls and barons to be amerced by their equals. 23-34.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
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 Spooner, Lysander
