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...

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...

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...

called demesne; other income came from imposing legal fines and arbitrary amercements, and from taxes, which at that time were raised only intermittently....

The appellant's surety will be transformed into a fine. Money portal Amercement Asset forfeiture — in which the results of a crime and items used in a...

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...

arbitrary recurring fees, and fines and punishments for lawbreakers (see amercement). In rural areas, the statute was enforced by manorial lords, who held...

trimer, trimerize merc- reward, wages, hire Latin merx (genitive mercis) amercement, commerce, commercial, market, mercantile, mercenary, mercery, merchandise...

has been expanded to target ordinary citizens. In latter-day practice, amercements may include partial (Jang) or full seizure (Lloydsmith, Rai) of a house...

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