Fines and Amercements
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amercements · fines · amercement · arbitrary fines · fine · fines and amercements · highest amercement · lowest amercement · middle amercement · paṇa
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)
and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed, (or assessed, ponatur,) but by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood.
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Monetary penalties, the most common punishment at the time of Magna Carta, whose amount was to be fixed by the jury.
and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed, (or assessed, ponatur,) but by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood.
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.
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.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The graduated system of monetary penalties (paṇas and the three tiers of amercement) used to punish nearly every offense described.
the man shall pay a fine of two hundred.
Sexual Offenses (strīsaṃgrahaṇaprakaraṇam)
Miscellaneous Offenses (prakīrṇakaprakaraṇam)
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The legal concept of monetary exactions imposed by the Crown, here distinguished as fines and amercements and subjected to redress when levied unjustly.
The distinction between fines and amercements has been explained in a former chapter.
In any view, the terms of Magna Carta were broadened out to embrace illegal fines and amercements of every sort.
Unique procedure was provided by the present chapter for deciding disputes as to the legality of fines and amercements.