Crossword-Solution: AMERCEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amercement | n. | The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] |
We have 7 clues for the answer “AMERCEMENT”
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| Court-imposed penalty | 1 answer |
| Mulct | 13 answers |
| Penalty | 57 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| forfeiture | 68 answers |
| Discipline | 88 answers |
| Fine ___ | 103 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with AMERCEMENT (5)
Law) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
The goods and personal effects belonging to the passengers and yourself have been safely landed at the Embarcadero of Todos Santos--a neutral port--by my directions; my interpretation of the orders of the Federal Council excepting innocent non-combatants and their official protector from confiscation or amercement.
She desired still to bequeath it to Pierre, not only because of her great kindness for him, but as a sort of self-imposed amercement upon her house for the death of his father.
But by Magna Charta things were so ordered, that a delinquent might be punished, but not ruined, by a fine or amercement, because the degree of his offence, and the rank he held, were to be taken into consideration.
The weavers' guild punished members who used bad thread in their weaving or did defective weaving by showing the default to the mayor, with opportunity for the workman to make entreaty, and the mayor and twelve members of the guild then made a verdict of amercement of 1/2 mark [6s.8d.] and the workman of the cloth was also punished by the guild bailiffs according to guild custom.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1976).