- An
amercement is a
financial penalty in
English law,
common during the
Middle Ages,
imposed either by the
court or by peers.
While it is
often synonymous...
-
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...
- 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...
- has been
expanded to
target ordinary citizens. In latter-day practice,
amercements may
include partial (Jang) or full
seizure (Lloydsmith, Rai) of a house...
- new
streams of
money from
fines and
amercements.
There was a
wholesale reform of the
coinage in 1180, with
royal officials taking direct control of the...
- England. In 1199 he
again served with
Barre and
fitzHervey to
impose amercements in the
counties of Cambridge, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk...
- 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...
- 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...
- tithings. They
pledged to be law
abiding and to
report crimes on pain of
amercement. When a
crime was committed, the
victim or
witnesses could raise the "hue...
- The appellant's
surety will be
transformed into a fine.
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