amercement

1 Do you know how much money about the amercement for driving after drinking?

你知道酒后驾车要罚多少钱吗？

2 Yet here, too, the wardens did not escape indirect amercement, for absolution from interdiction or excommunication often meant a payment of various court fees, which in many cases were by no means light.

3 A great part of the king's revenue then consisted in the fines and amercements, which were imposed in his courts.

4 Afterwards Eadmer came and withdrew himself, and submitted to an amercement of one mark.Pledges,

5 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.

6 Asseirers ratify the chief rent and amercements, between the lord and the inhabitant.

7 The first statute of Westminster, passed sixty years after Magna Carta, treats the fine and amercement as synonymous, as follows.

8 Of which amercements, or ransoming of bondmen, some lords’ stewards say that it is rightful, forasmuch as a churl hath no temporal thing that is not his lord’s, as they say.

9 Inside the we-group the first need for money is for fees, fines, amercements, and bride price.

10 This was disallowed by ordinance on pain of amercement, and bakers were admonished, in lieu of such payments, to increase the size of the loaf "to the profit of the public."

11 Which taxes and amercements fell heaviest on the poor people, the effect of whose labor would not clothe their wives and children.

12 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.

13 And in many other statutes passed after Magna Carta, the terms fine and amercement seem to be used indifferently, in prescribing the punishment for offences.

14 A kind of expiation or amercement by fine, known to the Mosaic, Roman, and old English law.

15 But it is by no means impossible that the court itself had to decide on the penalty or the amount of the amercement after first making the presentment as to the fact.

16 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.

17 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.

18 Sullivan says that both plaintiffs and defendants were liable to amercement.

19 At the other the diners were silent and unsociable, or the conversation, if any, was so full of 'amercements and feoffments' that a mere countryman would have thought the people were conjuring.

20 But as few, if any courts of this kind for levying amercements have been held since 1632, 8 Car.

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