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AMERCIAMENT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
noun amer· ci· a· ment -sēəmənt, -shəm- plural -s archaic : amercement Word History Etymology Middle English First Known Use 14th century.
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AMERCIAMENT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
verb (transitive) obsolete 1. law to punish by a fine 2. to punish with any arbitrary penalty Collins English Dictionary.
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Amercement - Wikipedia
An amercement is a financial penalty in English law, common during the Middle Ages, imposed either by the court or by peers.
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amerciament
amerciament (əˈmɜːsɪəmənt) Also 5–6 amercyament. [Refashioned from amercement, after med.L. amerciāment-um, f. amerciāre: see amerciate. More freq. than amercement as techn. term.] 1. = amercement 1.1543 Grafton Contn. Harding's Chron. 508 Euery thyng was haunsed above the measure; amercyamentes tur...
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amerciament, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun amerciament is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for amerciament is from 1388. amerciament ...
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amerciment - Middle English Compendium - University of Michigan
1. (a) A penalty imposed upon an offender or defaulter, esp. one imposed 'at the mercy', i.e. at the discretion, of the court (as distinct from a statutory ...
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merciament
† ˈmerciament Obs. rare. Also 5 merceament, 6 mercyament. [Aphetic form of amerciament.] Amercement.1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 95 Blodewitte, a merciamente for effusion of bloode. 1494 Fabyan Chron. (1811) 344 Baylyes..were conuycte..for takynge of merceamentys otherwyse then the lawe them comma...
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SND :: amerciament - Dictionaries of the Scots Language
= mercy; to be amerced was to be at the mercy of the judge as to the amount of the fine.] Amerciament n. Top. Hide Quotations Hide Etymology. 597. snd. Hide ...
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Amercement - Webster's 1828 Dictionary
A pecuniary penalty inflicted on an offender at the discretion of the court. It differs from a fine, in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and ...
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amerciament - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Latin amerciamentum. Noun. edit. amerciament (plural amerciaments). Alternative form of amercement.
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"amerciament" definitions and more: Financial penalty ... - OneLook
▸ noun: Alternative form of amercement [(law) A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture, usually applied at the discretion of a court.] Similar: amende, ...
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AMERCE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
transitive verb : to punish by a fine whose amount is fixed by the court broadly : punish amercement ə-ˈmər-smənt noun amerciable
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Guildable Manor
Hereof you are not to fail on pain of amerciament. High Bailiff ".
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amercement
amercement (əˈmɜːsmənt) Also 5 amerciment, amercyment. [a. AFr. amerciment, n. of action f. amercier; see amerce. Often aphet. in 16th c. to merciment, and in 15th varied with amerciament after med.L.] 1. The infliction of a penalty left to the ‘mercy’ of the inflicter; hence the imposition of an ar...
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Courts of the County Palatine of Durham
when all the inhabitants and residents within the manor were required to attend, and to do their suit and service to the lord of the manor, upon pain of amerciament
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