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Affeerors

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Affeerors [fr. afeurer, or afferer, Fr., to tax, fr. forum, Lat., a market], persons who, in courts-leet, upon oath, settle and moderate the fines and amercements imposed on those who have committed offences arbitrarily punishable, or that have no express penalty appointed by statute. They are also appointed to moderate fines, etc., in courts-baron--Cowel's Law Dict.; 4 Bl. Com. Shakespeare was an affeeror in Stratford-on-Avon.

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