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." ❋ Unknown (2005)
His revenue, derived from the fines and amercements known to the ❋ Giles Gossip (N/A)
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 ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
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. ❋ Unknown (1909)
If ye had so injured me I had been among ye with fines and amercements. ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)
_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. ❋ Various (1906)
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. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)
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. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
Inside the we-group the first need for money is for fees, fines, amercements, and bride price. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
Fines, amercements, and terms of imprisonment left indefinite by the law, other than for contempts, shall be fixed by the jury, triers of the offence. ❋ Unknown (1853)
Thus, on the 13th of May, the following amercements were made and recorded: -- ❋ Unknown (1846)
In some instances the property restored has been so wasted and injured as to be of little value; in others, the amercements and charges have been nearly equal to the value of the fee simple of the estates; and in many, where the indents [128] being the species of money received by the State, have been restored to the former proprietors, an inevitable and considerable loss has been sustained by the depreciation. ❋ Egerton Ryerson (1842)
Here they persecute the rich and despoil them under false pretences; there they suborn false witnesses, and impose penalties for suppositious offences; everywhere they excite the hatred of parties, encourage informations to obtain amercements, extort property, seize persons; and when their short-sighted avarice has accumulated into one mass all the riches of ❋ Unknown (1788)
Asseirers ratify the chief rent and amercements, between the lord and the inhabitant. ❋ William Hutton (1769)
The fines and amercements were another branch, and this, at a time when disorders abounded, and almost every disorder was punished by a fine, was a much greater article than at first could readily be imagined, --- especially when we consider that there were no limitations in this point but the king's mercy, particularly in all offences relating to the forest, which were of various kinds, and very strictly inquired into. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
A great part of the king's revenue then consisted in the fines and amercements which were imposed in his courts. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
What time it fliall be held, and how the amercements Hiall be levied, 175, i? ❋ Unknown (1790)
