Usually means: Financial penalty for legal wrongdoing.
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  1. amercement: Merriam-Webster
  2. amercement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amercement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. amercement: Vocabulary.com
  5. amercement: Wordnik
  6. amercement: Wiktionary
  7. amercement: Dictionary.com
  8. Amercement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Amercement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. amercement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. amercement: Rhymezone
  12. Amercement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. amercement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. amercement: FreeDictionary.org
  15. amercement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. amercement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AMERCEMENT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. amercement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. amercement: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. amercement: Legal dictionary

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  1. amercement: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amercement)

noun:  (law) A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture, usually applied at the discretion of a court.

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