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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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
Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
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
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 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
