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How To Use amerce In A Sentence

• Over the same period, the number of similarly offending innkeepers who were amerced the higher sum of 3s. 4d. varied between eight in 1631 and 1637 and four in 1632 and every year between 1639 and 1642. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
• Once discover those who violate an agreement, castigatory measure will increase " compensatory yearly salary 5 times right-and-left amerce " .
• Page 110 such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of Ordinances and constitution of the state of Alabama: with the constitution of the provisional government and of the Confederate States of America
• Council excepting innocent non-combatants and their official protector from confiscation or amercement. The Crusade of the Excelsior
• Richard Walerond is to make two suits yearly, one at 'La Hockeday,' [10] and one at Michaelmas amercement, to consist of one sextary of wine of the value of sixpence and not more. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
• The court amerced her in the sum of 1000 dollars.
• Corporal punishment, imprisonment, and amercement resulted; of frequent occurrence were those fearful scenes which culminated in riots such as those of Ilocos in 1807 and The Philippine Islands
• Whoso withholds his daughter, [226] after having promised to give her [in marriage], shall be amerced, and shall reimburse all expenses incurred with interest. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
• In other actions the unsuccessful party has to pay an amercement for making an unjust, or resisting a just claim; the defendant found guilty of trespass is fined and imprisoned.
• Sir Neville justice, he could fight like a demon; had abandoned the royal cause when it was hopeless, and, by betraying his sovereign, escaped the usual fate and amercement of malcontent -- the Protector remarking, with a certain solemn humour, "that Sir Neville was an instrument in the hand of the Lord, but that Satan had a share in him, which doubtless he would not fail to claim in due time. Kate Coventry An Autobiography