amercement

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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 Spooner, Lysander

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)

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 Ware, Sedley Lynch

A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law.

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret

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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe