Fine and amercement
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amercement · fine · fine of one thousand and eighty paṇas · highest amercement · lowest amercement · middle amercement
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Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Sanskrit)
A fine of one thousand and eighty `paṇa`s is the highest amercement;
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The common-law penalty of amercement imposed by juries on parties who bring or lose unjust suits, distinguished by Coke from fines imposed by the king.
But after the trial, the plaintiff or defendant was liable to be amerced, (by the jury, of course,) for having troubled the court with the prosecution or defence of an unjust suit.
It is also of a piece with his pretence that there was a difference between [164] fine and amercement, and that fines might be imposed by the king, and that juries were required only for fixing amercements.
Under the prevailing system, in which the parties pay the expenses of their suits, nothing but money is necessary to enable any malicious man to commence and prosecute a groundless suit, to the terror, injury, and perhaps ruin, of another man.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The graded scale of monetary fines (highest, middle, lowest) used in the king's administration of justice.
A fine of one thousand and eighty `paṇa`s is the highest amercement;