amercement
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Similarly at Worcester the “tensures” shared with the citizens the right to the assistance of the afferors in cases of wrongful or excessive amercement.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
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
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
A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
