To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven.
Let all the aldermen have a proper hook and cord, and let him who shall not have one within the appointed term be amerced by the city.
Must the time Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown, Which were not thine nor mine?
I will have none such: Worship or worship not, thou shalt behold The worlds beyond thy little world, nor be Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life, With torture of my dooming.
A peer can be amerced only by his peers, and never to any greater amount than five pounds, excepting in the case of a duke, who can be amerced ten.
It occurs, as every one knows, in the clause of the Great Charter, which says that the villain who falls into the king's mercy is to be amerced 'saving his waynage.
Earls and barons shall be amerced only by their peers, and only in accordance with the seriousness of the offense.
Anyone making those passing with goods through their jurisdiction answer to them in excess of their jurisdiction shall be grievously amerced to the King.
Both were amerced for coming to an agreement out of Court.
The justices amerced the losing party with a monetary penalty.
No city, borough, town, nor man shall be amercedwithout reasonable cause and according to the severity of his trespass.
If any township or village failed to follow the Hue and Cry they were liable to be amerced at the Justice Seat for the default.
Homicide committed in a fray: the offender who had stabbed his adversary, a butcher, takes refuge in the Church of Crawley and abjures the realm: townships of Crawley and Hurst amerced because they did not make suit.
Those opposing execution or distress made by order of the seneschals to be amerced and bound to the commonalty in forty pence.
Being by sword-destroying death amerced For that sword's punishment himself inflicted first.
Such presentments are made by a set of at least twelve men, and the presented person is amerced there and then.
And if any burgess should be out of the borough at the time of summons of the court aforesaid and could not reasonably be forewarned, he should not be amerced for default.
In the time of Edmund, the brewers of the same town used to be amerced once a year according to the measure of their guilt and at the rate of 6d.
Further, in the time of Edmund, retailers of cloth selling in their windows used not to be amerced except by view of jurors of the same town and once a year at 12d.
The Pepperers are first mentioned as a fraternity among the amercedguilds of Henry II.
He again amerced Alderman Capel (ancestor of the Earls of Essex) L2,000, and on his bold resistance, threw him into the Tower for life.
For a trifling riot in the City (a mere pretext), the mayor and aldermen were amerced in the sum of L6,000.
At the same court, too, William Hessland was amerced for appropriating the few trumpery chattels of Walter Cokstone, a villein belonging to the lord.
In the records of the Courts Leet for Norfolk it is very seldom indeed, that you can find a court held at which one or more persons, male and female, are not amerced for "drawing blood" from somebody.
Earls and Barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, and according to the degree of their crime.
But even in this court it was the law "that none be amerced but by his peers.
One who had taken criminal advantage of another's daughter was to marry her and pay the father the usual dowry; if not, he was to be amerced fifty shekels of silver, the ordinary dowry of virgins.
Should the murdered woman be pregnant, the slayer is amerced as if he had killed two.
Also, the assise of bakers is sixpence highing and sixpence lowing in the price of a quarter of wheat; for if he lack an ounce in the weight of a farthing loaf he to be amerced at 20d.
And a villein shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he falls under our mercy; and none of the aforesaid amerciaments shall be assessed but by the oath of honest men in the neighbourhood.
No ecclesiastical person shall beamerced for his lay tenement, but according to the proportion of the others aforesaid, and not according to the value of his ecclesiastical benefice.
Earls and barons shall not beamerced but by their peers, and after the degree of the offence.
And a villein, in the same way, if he fall under our mercy, shall be amerced saving his wainnage.
A freeman shall only be amerced for a small offence according to the measure of that offence.
Earls and barons shall not be amerced save through their peers, and only according to the measure of the offence.
No clerk shall be amerced for his lay tenement, except according to the manner of the other persons aforesaid; and not according to the amount of his ecclesiastical benefice.
A clerk shall not be amerced in respect of his lay holding except after the manner of the others aforesaid; further, he shall not be amerced in accordance with the extent of his ecclesiastical benefice.
Earls and barons shall not beamerced except through their peers, and only in accordance with the degree of the offense.
Such law suits as have been decided unrighteously shall be re-investigated by the monarch: [in case of reversal of the judgment] the judges and the winning party shall be amerced in double the amount of the fine decreed in the suit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amerced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
