I have been thrust into prison, and amerced in a heavy fine.
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The person, in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum.
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One found guilty of it could be fined and imprisoned as well as amerced.
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Earls and barons shall be amerced only by their peers, and only in accordance with the seriousness of the offense.
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But if servants misbehave themselves, or leave their places, not being regularly discharged, they ought to be amerced or punished.
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Such presentments are made by a set of at least twelve men, and the presented person is amerced there and then.
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The fines are so numerous that it almost appears that every person on the estate was amerced from time to time.
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The officer searched the vehicle and found $75,000 in the trunk. The $75,000 was amerced because the officer disbelieved the explanation of the citizen.
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Exporting the goods whose exporting is forbidden by general regulative administrative deeds, shall be amerced to administrative fine of the two times bonded value of the goods.
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Marske is mentioned in the Domesday Book. St Germain's Church was consecrated by bishop Ægelric between 1042 and 1056. Marske was amerced 20 marks for its part in the pillaging of a Norwegian vessel in 1180.
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Three chapters of Magna Carta are occupied with remedies for this ill. Chapter 20 seeks to protect the ordinary layman; chapter 21, the barons; and chapter 22, the clergy. Three subdivisions—the freeman, the villein, and the merchant—are treated here. Amercements are much mentioned in Magna Carta, particularly article 20: > A free man shall not be amerced for a trivial offence except in accordance > with the degree of the offence, and for a grave offence he shall be amerced > in accordance with its gravity, yet saving his way of living; and a merchant > in the same way, saving his stock-in-trade; and a villein shall be amerced > in the same way, saving his means of livelihood--if they have fallen into > our mercy: and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed except by > the oath of good men of the neighbourhood.
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Those required to attend were summoned to appear, often by an announcement in church on Sunday or by a notice pinned to the church door. "Reasonable notice" had to be given, usually three days. Attendance at the court was a feudal duty, and those who failed to appear could be amerced, i.e. arbitrarily fined.
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When "Bill 5", which was later to become the Civil Forfeiture Act, was introduced by British Columbia Solicitor-General Rich Coleman, he made liberal use of the "organised crime" fear, uncertainty and doubt tactic."Official Report of DEBATES OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (Hansard) MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2005 Afternoon Sitting Volume 27, Number 27" He also mentioned that Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta had also recently introduced similar legislation. This law later was expanded to create the Civil Forfeiture Office, whereby property can be amerced with no court process.
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On the accession of Elizabeth I Cheyney went on a preaching tour, and during his absence on this work the ecclesiastical visitors employed to carry out the queen's injunctions of 1559 visited Halford, where they found the rector absent, and the priest in charge a probable Catholic. They amerced the absent incumbent and seized his corn. Cheyney was well known to William Cecil, and was very soon (6 April 1560) invited to preach before the queen. He then told her that her visitors ought rather to be called takers, as they had impoverished his living.
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At the Norman Conquest the royal manor of Cirencester was granted to the Earl of Hereford, William Fitz-Osbern, but by 1075 it had reverted to the Crown. The manor was granted to Cirencester Abbey, founded by Henry I in 1117, and following half a century of building work during which the minster church was demolished, the great abbey church was finally dedicated in 1176. The manor was granted to the Abbey in 1189, although a royal charter dated 1133 speaks of burgesses in the town. The struggle of the townsmen to gain the rights and privileges of a borough for Cirencester probably began in the same year, when they were amerced for a false presentment.
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Thomas Long (1539 – 30 June 1593), also spelt Longe, was the first Englishman to be punished for being elected to the House of Commons of England by bribery. After being returned as one of the two Members of the Parliament of England for Westbury in 1571, Long was found to be "a simple man, and of small capacity to serve in parliament". On enquiries being made, it transpired that he had paid Anthony Garland, the returning officer, and a Mr Wat, the sum of four pounds to be elected. For this conduct, which was described as "the said lewd and scandalous attempt", the borough of Westbury was amerced twenty pounds, Long was removed from office, and the returning officer was both fined and imprisoned.
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Roberts pointed to additional facts that he believed should be considered. The settlement agreement resulted to Hazel's becoming a co- conspirator in the market-allocation scheme condemned in the recent Hartford- Empire case and profiting greatly from the antitrust violation. Roberts therefore concluded that the majority: > holds that, solely because of the fraud which was practiced on the Patent > Office and in litigation on the patent, the owner of the patent is to be > amerced and in effect fined for the benefit of the other party to the suit, > although that other comes with unclean hands and stands adjudged a party to > a conspiracy to benefit over a period of twelve years under the aegis of the > very patent it now attacks for fraud. To disregard these considerations, to > preclude inquiry concerning these matters, is recklessly to punish one > wrongdoer for the benefit of another.
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The difference is of little practical import: in either view the Charter saves to him his means of earning a living. Some boroughs, indeed, had anticipated Magna Carta by obtaining in their own charters a definition of the maximum amercement exigible, or in some cases of the amercing body. Thus, John's Charter to Dunwich of 29 June 1200 provides that the burgesses shall only be amerced by six men from within the borough, and six men from without. The capital had special privileges: in his Charter to London, Henry I promised that no citizen in misericordia pecuniae should pay a higher sum than 100 shillings (the amount of his wer). This was confirmed in the Charter of Henry II, who declared “that none shall be adjudged for amercements of money, but according to the law of the city, which they had in the time of King Henry, my grandfather.” John's Charter to London of 17 June 1199, also referred to this; and the general confirmation of customs, contained in chapter 13 of Magna Carta, would further strengthen it.
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Throughout her marriage, Maud's position as the wife of the most politically significant nobleman of the 13th century was diminished by her mother's control of a third of the Marshal inheritance and her rank as Countess of Lincoln and dowager countess of Pembroke.. Richard being the heir to one-fifth of the Pembroke earldom was also the guarantor of his mother-in-law's dowry.. In about 1249/50, Maud ostensibly agreed to the transfer of the manor of Naseby in Northamptonshire, which had formed the greatest part of her maritagium [marriage portion], to her husband's young niece Isabella and her husband, William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle as part of Isabella's own maritagium. Years later, after the deaths of both women's husbands, Maud sued Isabella for the property, claiming that it had been transferred against her will. Isabella, however, was able to produce the chirograph that showed Maud's participation in the writing of the document; this according to the Common Law signified Maud's agreement to the transaction, and Maud herself was "amerced for litigating a false claim".
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