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)

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 Cowper, William

Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.

From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Spooner, Lysander

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

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