amercement

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Refusing to do so, he was thereupon summoned to come into the Police Court on the glorious Fourth to show cause why he ought not to pay the amercement.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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 Webster, Noah

A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law.

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret

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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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

From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Spooner, Lysander