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Перевод: amercement

[существительное]
наказание; наложение штрафа; денежный штраф

Тезаурус:

1. The verderers were closely examined at the Forest Eyre as to the facts to which they deposed in their rolls of presentments, and even minor contradictions in their evidence might result in their committal to prison and subsequent amercement.
2. These offices involved exacting duties in the enforcement of a system which was considered hateful and oppressive by the forest inhabitants; default in any particular resulted in heavy amercement at the Forest Eyre.
3. If anyone else did so, his horses and dogs were to be forfeited to the contributaries, and he was to pay an amercement to the king.
4. If the verderers (or their heirs, if the verderers had died in the mean time) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre, or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular, they were liable to amercement.
5. The regarders accused one of them, Ralph of Abinghall, of having impounded in Walmore Green the animals belonging to the men of the district, extorted sixty geese from them as an amercement, and kept the beasts for himself, although all profits of such attachments belonged to the king.
6. The jurors, having appeared before the king, were induced, probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment, to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations; they then received the king's pardon.
7. The judgment of the court was that because Richard was not a sworn forester, he was liable to amercement.
8. No one was henceforth to suffer death or mutilation for taking the king's deer: the penalties were to be limited to amercement, imprisonment or exile.
9. The intervals between Forest Eyres were too long to maintain effective control over such men: nevertheless when the Forest Eyres were held they frequently resulted in the conviction of the foresters of fee of serious misconduct, and in their amercement, forfeiture of office, and even imprisonment.