10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFEERMENT»
Discover the use of
affeerment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
affeerment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of Lay Judges
Despite the qualms expressed in Yearbook cases over the steward's acting as
judge "in his own case,"190 the common lawyers conceded a power to punish for
this class of offenses, free from review by any kind of affeerment. The power ...
2
A Digest of the Laws of England
D. If it be assessed without affeerment, the party shall have a writ upon /"./. Ch. 14
. and thereon an alias, fluries, and attachment. Ibid. Or, if it be outrageous, a writ
demoderata misericordia. F. N. B. 75. A. Noy. 20. And it onght to be assessed at ...
Sir John Comyns, Stewart Kyd,
1793
3
A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient ...
ib. not even by custom, but this formerly was doubted . . . . . . ib. the amercement
must be reasonable, and be affeered . . . . . . ib. yet it has been said that the jury
may amerce in a sum certain, without affeerment . . ib. the reasonableness once ...
John Scriven (serjeant at law.), Henry Stalman,
1846
4
The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity, Alphabetically ...
It is very reasonable there should be such an affeerment 5 for in this very case it
is very POffiblC the tenant might not have been summoned, and that this might
come to the knowledge of the affeerers, and that would be an excuse for this ...
5
Les Termes de la Ley Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words ...
Et si tin Jury en un Leet taxe un amerciament, ceo suffist sins ascun affeerment,
ear le amerciament est le act del Court, & le affeerment le act del Jury. C». lib. 8.
s. 39, 40. b.&lii. 11. Golsrcfs Case. Affiance. Affiance est le plight del soy ent* ...
6
A Treatise on Copyholds: Customary Freeholds, Ancient ...
Cb. - - ib. exxviii. it appears sufficient for the homage to amerce in a particular
sum, without affeerment - - - 721-2 exxix. but the reasonableness of the sum is
usually submitted to affeerors - 722 exxx. it should seem more usual to amerce in
...
John Scriven (serjeant at law.),
1823
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The jurisdiction of the Court leet: exemplified in the ...
275. Griffith v. Biddle. Certainty. Agreed, that amerciaments are to be affeered,
unless they are in nature of fine ; and, that there is no occasion for an affeerment,
but where the amerciament it- discretionary ; but, where the sum is ascertained
by ...
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The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity, Alphabetically ...
Objection, This is an amerciament in nature of a fine, and a fine may be set by a
court without any affeerment. Answer, It is true, a fine may be set without
affeerment; because it is out of the statute of Mag'za Cbarta; for the statute of
Magna ...
Gentleman of the Middle Temple,
1749
9
A new abridgment of the law
By whom the Affeerment is to be. The award of the amercement is the act of the
court, but the 8 Co. 40. b. taxing or reducing it to a certainty must be done by (c)
certain ?cJ'Tvha*<^ officers called affeerors, chosen and sworn for that purpose ...
Matthew Bacon, Henry Gwillim,
1798
... which said amerciament was affeered by all the jurors to forty shillings, without
shewing a separate affeerment ; for this cause, the declaration was held bad on
general demurrer, (m) This doctrine has however been completely over-ruled in ...