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- noun Plural form of
amercement .
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Examples
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This and other amercements from the machine always sent the same message to journalists, politicians, and even average citizens: "Agree, or you will be sorry."
STOP THE CLAPPING AND LOOK IN THE MIRROR: The Moral of the Plamegate Affair 2005
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All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements, imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five and twenty barons whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the pease, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the aforesaid
The Magna Carta Anonymous
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His revenue, derived from the fines and amercements known to the
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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These assizes were to be held four times a year, and amercements were to be assessed by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The clauses enforcing legal reforms were of more general interest, for Henry II's "possessory assizes" were popular among all classes, and all suffered from arbitrary amercements and from insufficiently controlled officials.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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And all debts, fines, issues, amercements, penalties and profits, certain and casual, due to the Keepers of the liberties of England by authority of Parliament, shall be due to the Lord Protector, and be payable into his public receipt, and shall be recovered and prosecuted in his name.
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If ye had so injured me I had been among ye with fines and amercements.
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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_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.
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He raised money by forced loans; he compelled the judges to expound the law according to his own prejudices or caprice; he required the former adherents of Gloucester to purchase and repurchase charters of pardon; and, that he might obtain a more plentiful harvest of fines and amercements, put at once seventeen counties out of the protection of the law, under the pretence that they had favored his enemies.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Inside the kin-group adjudication, administration of justice by precedents and customs, composition for wrongs by payments or penalties, amercements by authority for breach of orders or violations of petty taboo, and exile took the place of retaliation.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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