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amercement noun damages, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty, penalty

AMERCEMENT, practice. A pecuniary penalty imposed upon a person who is in misericordia; as, for example, when the defendant se retaxit, or recessit in contemptum curioe. 8 Co. 58; Bar. Ab. Fines and Amercements. By the common law, none can be amerced in his absence, except for his default. Non licet aliquem in sua absentia amerciare nisi per ejus defaltas. Fleta, lib. 2, cap. 65, Sec. 15.
2. Formerly, if the sheriff failed in obeying the writs, rules, or orders of the court, he might be amerced; that is, a penalty might be imposed upon him; but this practice has been superseded by attachment. In New Jersey and Ohio, the sheriff may, by statutory provision, be amerced for making a return contrary to the provision of the statute. Coxe, 136, 169; 6 Halst. 334; 3 Halst. 270, 271; 5 Halst. 319; 1 Green, 159, 341; 2 Green, 350; 2 South. 433; 1 Ham. 275; 2 Ham. 603; 6 Ham. 452; Wright, 720.

AMERCIAMENT, AMERCEMENT, English law. A pecuniary punishment arbitrarily imposed by some lord or count, in distinction from a fine which is expressed according to the statute. Kitch. 78. Amerciament royal, when the amerciament is made by the sheriff, or any other officer of the king. 4 Bl. Com. 372.

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Affere Amerciament correction cost costs damages discipline ejectment fine forfeit forfeiture Magna charta misericordia pecuniary penalty penalty punishment	Two years before that the Inner Temple had been more restrictive still, recording in its parliament that "first, it is ordered that the cooks or any other officer in the kitchen shall not have any woman or woman-kind to come or resort into the kitchen or kitchen door for any cause, upon pain that the officer to whom such person shall resort to lose his office or place, or otherwise be punished by amercement. Professional playing in London and Superior Cambridge responses by Gurr, Andrew / Shakespeare Studies In those actions of ravishment appearing in common law courts as a trespass, a conviction would result in the accused paying an amercement, usually the equivalent of the goods allegedly stolen from the husband in addition to damages. Runaway wives: husband desertion in medieval England by Butler, Sara / Journal of Social History The punishment for impermissibly intruding upon the forest was amercement (fine) at the next Eyre in addition to an annual fine based on the crops sown: For every acre illegally planted, the fine was a shilling for winter corn (either wheat or rye) and sixpence for spring corn (generally oats). Three cases/four tales: commons, capture, the public trust, and ... by Goble, Dale D. / Environmental Law	Ambulatoria voluntas ambulatory ambuscade ambush ambushed ameliorable ameliorate amelioration ameliorative amenability amenable amenable to law amenable to reason amend amend by removing Amende honorable amended complaint amended pleading amending amendment amends amenities amenity amentia amerce amercement Amerciament amercing American Association of Retired Persons American Bankers Association American Bar Association American Civil Liberties Union American Depository Receipt American Farm Bureau Federation American Federation of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations American Indian Movement American Israel Public Affairs Committee American Legion American Medical Association Ames, James Barr Ames, Samuel Ami amiability amiable amicability amicable Amicable action amicire amicus curiae amid amidst	Amenuse AMENY AMEO Ameoba Ameoba Ameoba AMEP AMEPAC AMEPP AMEPS AMEQ Amer Amer Jubran Defense Committee Amer Std Amer. AMERA AMERA Amerada Hess Company Amerasian AmerAsian School in Okinawa Amerasians Ameratsu Ameratsu AMERC amerce amerce amerceable amerceable amerced amerced amercement Amercement royal amercements amercements Amercer amerces amerces amerciable Amerciament Amerciament amercing amercing Amerco AMERD AMERDC AMEREF AMEREM Ameretto AMERG Amerge AMERI Ameri-Can Prescription Administrators Corporation Ameriball Ameriball AMERIC America America America (continent) America (country) America (country) America (United States)

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Two years before that the Inner Temple had been more restrictive still, recording in its parliament that "first, it is ordered that the cooks or any other officer in the kitchen shall not have any woman or woman-kind to come or resort into the kitchen or kitchen door for any cause, upon pain that the officer to whom such person shall resort to lose his office or place, or otherwise be punished by amercement.

Professional playing in London and Superior Cambridge responses by Gurr, Andrew / Shakespeare Studies

In those actions of ravishment appearing in common law courts as a trespass, a conviction would result in the accused paying an amercement, usually the equivalent of the goods allegedly stolen from the husband in addition to damages.

Runaway wives: husband desertion in medieval England by Butler, Sara / Journal of Social History

The punishment for impermissibly intruding upon the forest was amercement (fine) at the next Eyre in addition to an annual fine based on the crops sown: For every acre illegally planted, the fine was a shilling for winter corn (either wheat or rye) and sixpence for spring corn (generally oats).

Three cases/four tales: commons, capture, the public trust, and ... by Goble, Dale D. / Environmental Law

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