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AMERCEMENT, or AMERCIAMENT (derived, through the Fr. (I merci, from Lat. merces, pay)

AMERCEMENT, or AMERCIAMENT (derived, through the Fr. (I merci, from See also:
LAT
Lat. merces, pay) , in See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

law, an arbitrary pecuniary See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty, inflicted in old days on an offender by the peers or equals of the party amerced. The word has in See also:

MODERN

modern times become. practically a poetical synonym for See also:

FINE

fine or de-privation. But an amercement differed from a fixed fine, prescribed. by See also:

STATUTE

statute, by See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason of its arbitrary nature; it represented a See also:

COMMUTATION (from Lat. commutare, to change)

commutation of a See also:

SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence of See also:

FORFEITURE (from " forfeit," originally an offence, and hence a fine exacted as a penalty for such; derived through the O. Fr. forfeit, from the late Lat. foris factum, a trespass, that which is done foris, outside)

forfeiture of goods, while a fine was originally a See also:

composition agreed upon between the See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge and the prisoner to avoid imprisonment. The fixing or See also:

ASSESSMENT, (from Lat. assessare, to sit beside, to judge)

assessment of an ,amercement was termed an afeerment. In the See also:

LOWER

lower courts the amercement was offered by a See also:

JURY

jury of the offender's neighbours (affeerors); in the See also:

SUPERIOR

superior courts by the See also:

CORONER

coroner, except in the See also:

case of See also:

OFFICERS

officers of the See also:

court, when the amount was affeered by the See also:

JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges themselves. All judgments were entered on the court See also:

roll as "in See also:

mercy" (sit in misericordia), and the word misericordia, or some contracted See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of it, was written on the margin. Articles twenty to twenty-two of Magna Carta regulated the assessment of amercements, See See also:

Stephen, See also:

HISTORY

History of Criminal Law; See also:

POLLOCK

Pollock and See also:

Maitland, History of English Law; W. S. McKechnie, Magna Carta (19os).

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