amerce

How To Use amerce In A Sentence

• They therefore decreed that both marks should be restored to their former positions, and amerced both parties by a negligible fine. Monk's Hood
• There was an unjust tax of a few pence, with the chance of amercement by a single judge without a jury; but by no provision of this act was the personal liberty of any man assailed. American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)
• Should the judges, from partiality, from love of gain, or from fear, act in anywise contrary to law or usage; [46] each one [so acting] shall be amerced in double the value of the suit. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
• In 1464 the Colchester bailiffs dismissed one of their sergeants for concealing private quarrels from the court, settling them himself, and pocketing the amercements, as well as for refusing to obey the orders of the bailiffs.
• When you sit down to watch it, you're fully amerced into the universe created by the story. VIEWPOINT: What makes sci-fi work?
• That the king, feifed of the hundred, held a court, and it was acuftom witliin the hundred that the freeholders making default at court (hould be amerced at two fhiliings and eight-pence, and bailift of the fame hundred was ufed to dillr. iin for x) \t amerciament unpaid, that plaintiff is a freeholder, and for feveral def lults and non-payment of them on demand of defendant bailiff of ihe hundred took the cow. A complete system of pleading: comprehending the most approved precedents and forms of practice; chiefly consisting of such as have never before been printed: with an index to the principal work, incorporating and making it a continuation of Townshend'
• The steward of the court calls all such as are bound to appear, with as low a voice as possible, giving no notice when he goes to execute his office; however, he that does not give an answer is deeply amerced. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828
• A freeman shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; [31] and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
• This was disallowed by ordinance on pain of amercement, and bakers were admonished, in lieu of such payments, to increase the size of the loaf "to the profit of the public. The Customs of Old England
• Each is to levy and collect all fines, rents, farms and amercements due from his ward and execute, diligently and without fraud or negligence, all commands and instructions occurring in relation to his ward.