Amercement - Law Dictionary Search Results

Amercement or Amerciament

Matched in: Term Amercement or Amerciament

an ecclesiastical benefice. The 14th chapter is directed against excessive fines, and provides that:-'A freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault, and for a great fault after the

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Try free for 7 days See all features

Court-leet

are recoverable by action of debt or by distress. A fine is imposed by the court, but an amercement is generally the act of the jury; it must always be affeered in opencourt by two or more

Pro falso clamore suo

Pro falso clamore suo, a nominal amercement of a plaintiff 'for his false claim,' which used to be inserted in a judgment for the defendant.

Murdrum

Murdrum, the secret killing of another, also the amercement to which the vill wherein it was committed, or, if that were too poor, the whole hundred, was

Incidere

action. This term had a similar meaning under English law. For example, a person might become liable to amercement, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 765

Court-baron

strangers. The penalty for the breach of a bye-law was in the nature of a fine rather than amercement,and was not affeerable, i.e., assisable.consult Scriven on Copyholds, rth Edn. Pp. 600 et seq. Courts-baron do not appear

Bloodwit, or Bloudveit

Bloodwit, or Bloudveit [fr. blod, Sax., blood, and wyte, Old Eng., pity], an amercement for bloodshed; a customary fine, paid as a composition and atonement for shedding or drawing of blood, Paroch.

Abishering, or Abishersing

Abishering, or Abishersing, quit of amercements. It originally signified a forfeiture or amercement, and is more properly mishering, mishersing, or miskering, according to Spelman.

‹ Prev
1
2
Next ›
Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free

Try free for 7 days