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Definition of Amercement

1. Noun. Money extracted as a penalty.

Definition of Amercement

1. n. 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 statute for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]

Definition of Amercement

1. Noun. A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture. ¹

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Definition of Amercement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amercement

Literary usage of Amercement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"Br. amercement, pi. 35. cites ¡г AIT. 14. *ot of jo much [ 6. In an account upon a receipt of parcel by another's band, of which the defendant ..."

2. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"The amercement is for the delay of suit, and not for the tort or trespass ... There shall be no amercement where he who commits the wrong confesses it, ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Yet it merely brings us back to the word merces, airea ly correctly assigned by me as the Lat. word upon which amercement is founded. On the other hand, ..."

4. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1829)
"/S. r mes are imposed and assessed by the court: amercement, bv the coun- it need not ty. Ло court can impose a fine hut a court of record, other courts can ..."

5. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"Arbitrary amercement. 1 SC 101, §8. 2 Ibid. 108. » P. and.V. ii. 512-517. (B) Private jurisdictions. 4 p. 14. Their origin. the ecclesiastical courts were ..."

6. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law, in Ohio, and by Joseph Rockwell Swan (1850)
"The like, to make the Sureties of a Sheriff parties to a Judgment of amercement. The State of Ohio, county, ss. To the Coroner of said county —Greeting: ..."

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