amercement
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Now therefore bring ye forth535 Helen with all her treasures, also bring Such large amercement as is meet, a sum To be remember'd in all future times.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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
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
Consequently, that the disrespect of such orders might make the commander or his troops personally liable to amercement; but the government is not justly liable.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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
