amercement

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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 Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)

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

From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Spooner, Lysander

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

Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark.Pledges,

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.

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