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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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
Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.
From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
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
Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark.Pledges,
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
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
