amercement
Example Sentences
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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 plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
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 D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
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
