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amercement

NOUN
  1. money extracted as a penalty

How To Use amercement In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Council excepting innocent non-combatants and their official protector from confiscation or amercement. The Crusade of the Excelsior
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Dispossess unlawfully or unjustly; oust. emercement (amercement) The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
  • 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
  • The tenant is also to receive a serious amercement for his trespass in disobeying the bailiffs.
  • 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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