Dispossess unlawfully or unjustly; oust. emercement (amercement). From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Council excepting innocent non-combatants and their official protector from confiscation or amercement. From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
If an a£tion lies againft him for not return - ing a capias utlagat, or an amercement only for the contempt; adjourned, 87. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]] Reference
Refusing to do so, he was thereupon summoned to come into the Police Court on the glorious Fourth to show cause why he ought not to pay the amercement. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
Page 125 perusing his book, and the only consequence was a dismissal of the complaint, and the amercement of the complainant by the master, pro falso clamore. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
Consequently, that the disrespect of such orders might make the commander or his troops personally liable to amercement; but the government is not justly liable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
There was an unjust tax of a few pence, with the chance of amercement by a single judge without a jury; but by no provision of this act was the personal liberty of any man assailed. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference
And the land of the person making de - fault, into whose soever hands it may come, stands chargeable with the issues returned and lost, as in any other case of distress infinite, ffj If the sheriff return none, or too small issues, he is liable to amercement. From Wordnik.com. [A digest of laws relating to the offices and duties of sheriff, coroner and constable] Reference
This working hard with our Envoys, and indeed seeming impracticable for want of that sort of authority, submission to a heavy amercement (upwards of a million sterling) was, at an after meeting, suggested as an alternative, which might be admitted if proposed by us. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
THE electors aforesaid residing within every hundred shall meet on the third Monday in October after the first election of Aldermen, at such place, within their hundred, as the said Aldermen shall direct, notice thereof being previously given to them by such person residing within the hundred as the said Aldermen shall require who is hereby enjoined to obey such requisition, on pain of being punished by amercement and imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Public Papers] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference
4.82 In 1396-7 William, prior of Newstead, and a brother canon, proceeded against John Ravensfield for the return of a book by Richard of Hampole, entitled Pricke of Conscience, "and now the parties aforesaid are agreed by the licence of the court, and the said John is in ` misericordia '; he paid the amercement in the hall.". From Wordnik.com. [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference
"A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
Carolina, chosen to hear the petitions of Loyalists who had incurred the penalties of the confiscation, banishment, and amercement laws, made a report to the separate Houses in favour of the great majority of the petitioners; and a great part of those names which were upon the confiscation, banishment and amercement lists were struck off. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816] Reference
The court is present and records that she occupied more of her lord’s land than she had in dower by the sheriff and by order of the lord king,98 so that she was summoned and distrained to come into court, and she so responded that she remained in mercy of 10s by judgment, so that for that amercement and for other complaints she made fine with her lord for 1/2 mark and put her land in pledge in his court and did not want to render the 1/2 mark. From Wordnik.com. [Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!] Reference
With such amercement as is meet, a sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
Such large amercement as is meet, a sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
(C) amercement. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
(ageout; event, confequcncc; tcrminanon, conclufion; a foaunel, a vent made in a nufcle for the difcharge of humours; eva - cuation; piogenv, offspring; inlaw, Iffuc bath divers applications, fometimes ufcd for the Children begotten between a man r« and his wife, fometimes for profits growing from an amercement, fometimes for profits of lands or tenements, fometimes for that point of matter depending in fuit, where - upon the parties join and put their caufc to the trial of the jury. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language ...] Reference
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