- 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...
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punishes such
behaviour with a fine in the case of a
neighbour but with
amercement in the case of a lord
doing so with his tenant. It also
requires that...
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business of a
county court should be
dealt with. Y 20
Stated that an
amercement, a type of
medieval fine,
should be
proportionate to the offence, but...
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called demesne;
other income came from
imposing legal fines and
arbitrary amercements, and from taxes,
which at that time were
raised only intermittently....
- has been
expanded to
target ordinary citizens. In latter-day practice,
amercements may
include partial (Jang) or full
seizure (Lloydsmith, Rai) of a house...
- 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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arbitrary recurring fees, and
fines and
punishments for
lawbreakers (see
amercement). In
rural areas, the
statute was
enforced by
manorial lords, who held...
- land, and
threatened any who
should infringe these liberties with an
amercement of £100 of gold. This was an
addition to the
nearby port with land around...
- trimer,
trimerize merc- reward, wages, hire
Latin merx (genitive mercis)
amercement, commerce, commercial, market, mercantile, mercenary, mercery, merchandise...
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Citation Short title Title Extent of
repeal 3 Edw. 1. c. 6
Amercements Amerciaments shall be reasonable. The
words "city, borough, nor town nor any."...
