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 Sedley Lynch Ware
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
Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
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
Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
