As a holder of political power the lord has a right to inflict fines and amercements on transgressors[324].
In point of amercements there is the well-known difference as to the 'contenement' of a free landholder, a merchant and a villain, but this difference is prompted not by privilege but by the diversity of occupations.
What we are now to consider are only the profits arising to the king from hence; which consist principally in amercements or fines levied for offences against the forest-laws.
None of these amercements shall be imposed except by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood.
Wherefore they claim only “that they may be quit of common fines and amercements of the county, &c.
Footnote 50: The jurors were sometimes called "assessors," because they assessed, or determined the amount of fines and amercements to be imposed.
Footnote 28: Coke attempts to show that there is a distinction between amercements and fines--admitting that amercements must be fixed by one's peers, but claiming that fines may be fixed by the government.
By drawing out a balance sheet for the whole city in this year it appears that the total amount of all the amercements entered is L72 18s.
Coke attempts to show that there is a distinction between amercements and fines admitting that amercements must be fixed by one's peers, but, claiming that, fines may be fixed by the government.
The jurors were sometimes called " assessors," because they assessed, or determined the amount of fines and amercements to be imposed.
They likewise laid amercements of seventy, fifty, or thirty pounds of tobacco, as the cause was on every law case tried throughout the country.
Which taxes and amercements fell heaviest on the poor people, the effect of whose labor would not clothe their wives and children.
A great part of the king's revenue then consisted in the fines and amercements which were imposed in his courts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amercements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
