amercement

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Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.

From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Spooner, Lysander

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 Spooner, Lysander

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 Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

There were special privileges surrounding tenancies of these lands, such as freedom from tolls and duties, exemption from danegeld and amercement, from sitting on juries, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

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 Cowper, William