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)

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

From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III 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

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

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

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