How To Use Amerce In A Sentence
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They therefore decreed that both marks should be restored to their former positions, and amerced both parties by a negligible fine.
Monk's Hood
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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)
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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
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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.
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When you sit down to watch it, you're fully amerced into the universe created by the story.
VIEWPOINT: What makes sci-fi work?
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Justice, for example, a major source of royal income by the end of the twelfth century, could be exploited in this way because a large number of people existed to pay fines and amercements.
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The friar next addressed the company with a proposal, that the foreign merchant, instead of being amerced in a measure of the liquor which he had scandalized, should be mulcted in an equal quantity of the more generous wines which were usually produced after the repast had been concluded.
Anne of Geierstein
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The tenant is also to receive a serious amercement for his trespass in disobeying the bailiffs.
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ALL those WHO FELL, or the Gods of Greece, Asia, and Egypt; the ONE WHO ROSE, or Jesus Christ, at whose appearance the idols of the Pagan World wore amerced of their worship; and the MANY
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Over the same period, the number of similarly offending innkeepers who were amerced the higher sum of 3s. 4d. varied between eight in 1631 and 1637 and four in 1632 and every year between 1639 and 1642.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
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Refusing to do so, he was thereupon summoned to come into the Police Court on the glorious Fourth to show cause why he ought not to pay the amercement.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Dispossess unlawfully or unjustly; oust. emercement (amercement)
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
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Such law suits as have been decided unrighteously shall be re-investigated by the monarch: [in case of reversal of the judgment] the judges and the winning party shall be amerced in double the amount of the fine decreed in the suit.
Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
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An emissary upon the business of the community shall deliver up whatever he has received [on their account]: if he fail to deliver voluntarily, he shall be amerced eleven times the value [of what he withholds].
Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
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Sir Neville justice, he could fight like a demon; had abandoned the royal cause when it was hopeless, and, by betraying his sovereign, escaped the usual fate and amercement of malcontent -- the Protector remarking, with a certain solemn humour, "that Sir Neville was an instrument in the hand of the Lord, but that Satan had a share in him, which doubtless he would not fail to claim in due time.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography
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In other actions the unsuccessful party has to pay an amercement for making an unjust, or resisting a just claim; the defendant found guilty of trespass is fined and imprisoned.
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Whoso withholds his daughter, [226] after having promised to give her [in marriage], shall be amerced, and shall reimburse all expenses incurred with interest.
Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
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Corporal punishment, imprisonment, and amercement resulted; of frequent occurrence were those fearful scenes which culminated in riots such as those of Ilocos in 1807 and
The Philippine Islands
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The court amerced her in the sum of 1000 dollars.
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Richard Walerond is to make two suits yearly, one at 'La Hockeday,' [10] and one at Michaelmas amercement, to consist of one sextary of wine of the value of sixpence and not more.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Council excepting innocent non-combatants and their official protector from confiscation or amercement.
The Crusade of the Excelsior
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Page 110 such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of
Ordinances and constitution of the state of Alabama: with the constitution of the provisional government and of the Confederate States of America
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Once discover those who violate an agreement, castigatory measure will increase " compensatory yearly salary 5 times right-and-left amerce " .