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prescribed by
statute and was
often voluntary,
while an
amercement is arbitrary.
Amercements were
commonly used as a
punishment for
minor offences (such...
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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....
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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...
- The
spirit of the
Great Charter is not less discernible:
excessive amercements,
abuses of wardship,
irregular demands for
feudal aids, are forbidden...
- collectors,
together with the
excess and
fines and
ransom made, and also the
amercements of all them that
shall be
amerced before the said justices, in alleviation...
- or with medicine, or by annoyance, the highest, middlemost, and
first amercements shall be
imposed respectively. —Arthashastra 4.11.6 In general, causing...
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beaupleader fines, real actions, essoins, juries,
guardians in socage,
amercements for
default of summons,
pleas of
false judgement, replevin, freeholders...
-
grain prices laid down by the ****izes.
Penalties for
breach included amercements,
pillory and tumbrel. A 14th-century
statute labelled forestallers as...
-
people of the
manor in
general Affeerers,
responsible for ****essing
amercements (setting the
level of fines)
Specialist professional inspectors, in lieu...
- has been
expanded to
target ordinary citizens. In latter-day practice,
amercements may
include partial (Jang) or full
seizure (Lloydsmith, Rai) of a house...
