amercement
Example Sentences
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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 Archibald Henry Grimké
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
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
This was disallowed by ordinance on pain of amercement, and bakers were admonished, in lieu of such payments, to increase the size of the loaf "to the profit of the public."
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement.
From Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
