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Amercement royal
Amercement A*merce"ment, n. [OF. amerciment.] The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] --Blackstone. Note: This word, in old books, is written amerciament. Amercement royal, a penalty imposed on an officer for a misdemeanor in his office. --Jacobs.

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- An amercement is a financial penalty in English law, common during the Middle Ages, imposed either by the court or by peers. The noun "amercement" lately...
- the right of amercement for failure to appear to Chief Justices or Justices of Eyre. Chapter 19 restricted pleas of false judgment to royal courts. Chapter...
- blinding and castration). Lesser offenses were punished by amercements or financial penalties. The royal Fleet Prison in London was opened as early as the 1130s...
- land; and threatened any who should infringe these liberties with an amercement of £100 in gold. They moved the remains of the local saint, Cuthman of...
- pain not only to incur our indignation, but also to pay such pains and amercements and also to suffer imprisonment and other pains due to the transgressors...
- The appellant's surety will be transformed into a fine. Money portal Amercement ****et forfeiture — in which the results of a crime and items used in a...
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- and swore to report crimes committed by those in his tithing on pain of amercement. Boroughs were separate from the hundreds and had their own courts (variously...
- relief, wardship, marriage, fines, law-proceedings, debts, licenses, amercements etc. and which Jews paid to the English exchequer, like other English...
- has been expanded to target ordinary citizens. In latter-day practice, amercements may include partial (Jang) or full seizure (Lloydsmith, Rai) of a house...