| 单词 | amercement |
| 例句 | It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Similarly at Worcester the “tensures” shared with the citizens the right to the assistance of the afferors in cases of wrongful or excessive amercement. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z There were special privileges surrounding tenancies of these lands, such as freedom from tolls and duties, exemption from danegeld and amercement, from sitting on juries, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z But it is by no means impossible that the court itself had to decide on the penalty or the amount of the amercement after first making the presentment as to the fact. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z By drawing out a balance sheet for the whole city in this year it appears that the total amount of all the amercements entered is £72 18s. 10d. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Fines also, and all legal amercements for delinquencies against such laws must be paid, Deut. xxii. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark.Pledges, Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z And in many other statutes passed after Magna Carta, the terms fine and amercement seem to be used indifferently, in prescribing the punishment for offences. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Suitors had to pay for securing the hearing of their cases in addition to the fees for writs, and both amercements and compositions increased the receipts under this head. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Of which amercements, or ransoming of bondmen, some lords’ stewards say that it is rightful, forasmuch as a churl hath no temporal thing that is not his lord’s, as they say. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Which taxes and amercements fell heaviest on the poor people, the effect of whose labor would not clothe their wives and children. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts At the other the diners were silent and unsociable, or the conversation, if any, was so full of 'amercements and feoffments' that a mere countryman would have thought the people were conjuring. Old and New London Volume I Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement. An Essay on the Trial by Jury But as few, if any courts of this kind for levying amercements have been held since 1632, 8 Car. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First If ye had so injured me I had been among ye with fines and amercements. The Fifth Queen Crowned Inside the we-group the first need for money is for fees, fines, amercements, and bride price. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The expenses were defrayed by benevolences from the City Companies, and ten years' fees, fines, and amercements. Old and New London Volume I 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 What we are now to consider are only the profits arising to the king from hence; which consist principally in amercements or fines levied for offences against the forest-laws. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First No amercement to touch the necessary means of subsistence of a free man, the merchandise of a merchant, or the agricultural tools of a villein; earls and barons to be amerced by their equals. 23-34. The Leading Facts of English History Item: Our auditors in the exercise of civil and criminal jurisdiction shall receive no fees, or fines, or amercements, or anything under color of charges for sitting as assessors to the judges. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Now therefore bring ye forth535 Helen with all her treasures, also bring Such large amercement as is meet, a sum To be remember'd in all future times. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper A great part of the king's revenue then consisted in the fines and amercements which were imposed in his courts. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) 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 Abolitionist The penalty of the breach of the Laws or Customes of this Land is at the pleasure of the Judg, either amercement, or imprisonment, or both. An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape Asseirers ratify the chief rent and amercements, between the lord and the inhabitant. An History of Birmingham (1783) Yet here, too, the wardens did not escape indirect amercement, for absolution from interdiction or excommunication often meant a payment of various court fees, which in many cases were by no means light. The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects Consequently, that the disrespect of such orders might make the commander or his troops personally liable to amercement; but the government is not justly liable. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III A great part of the king's revenue then consisted in the fines and amercements, which were imposed in his courts. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law. Colonel Starbottle's Client She desired still to bequeath it to Pierre, not only because of her great kindness for him, but as a sort of self-imposed amercement upon her house for the death of his father. The Golden Dog The first statute of Westminster, passed sixty years after Magna Carta, treats the fine and amercement as synonymous, as follows. Essay on the Trial By Jury Sullivan says that both plaintiff's and defendants were liable to amercement. Essay on the Trial By Jury |
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