amerce
verb (used with object)
to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
amercement
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a word derived from
amerce.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Archibald Henry Grimké
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
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
