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    Fines and Amercements

    idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    amercements · fines · amercement · arbitrary fines · fine · fines and amercements · highest amercement · lowest amercement · middle amercement · paṇa

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    Amercements and Fines2 mentions

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)

    Pecuniary punishments were the most common punishments at that day, and the foregoing provisions of Magna Carta show that the amount of those punishments was to be fixed by the jury.
    ch. 5

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    An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

    Monetary penalties, the most common punishment at the time of Magna Carta, whose amount was to be fixed by the jury.

    Pecuniary punishments were the most common punishments at that day, and the foregoing provisions of Magna Carta show that the amount of those punishments was to be fixed by the jury.
    ch. 5
    and if the amounts of the fines had been left to be fixed by the king, he would have had a pecuniary temptation to impose unreasonable and oppressive ones.
    ch. 5
    and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed, (or assessed, ponatur,) but by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood.
    ch. 5

    Yājñavalkya SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The graduated system of monetary penalties (paṇas and the three tiers of amercement) used to punish nearly every offense described.

    A physician who practices deceitfully shall be fined the lowest amercement for injuring animals, the middle for injuring a human, and the highest for injuring a royal official.
    chapter 2
    For merchants who, acting in concert, obstruct the sale of goods at a fair price, or who sell them at such a price, the highest amercement is prescribed as the fine.
    chapter 2
    For throwing into a house an object that causes pain, or one that is life-threatening, the fine shall be sixteen `paṇa`s for the first, and the middle amercement for the second.
    chapter 2

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    The legal concept of monetary exactions imposed by the Crown, here distinguished as fines and amercements and subjected to redress when levied unjustly.

    All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five–and–twenty barons of whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the peace, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the …
    chapter fifty–five.
    Unique procedure was provided by the present chapter for deciding disputes as to the legality of fines and amercements.
    chapter fifty–five.
    The distinction between fines and amercements has been explained in a former chapter.
    chapter fifty–five.