"Misericordia" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.

Persons who, in court-leets, upon oath, settle and moderate tbe fines and amercements imposed on those who have committed offenses …

To punish, in general; to mulct.

To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion …

To impose an amercement or fine; to punish by a fine or penalty

Liable to be amerced.

of Amerce

The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs …

A pecuniary penalty, in the nature of a fine, imposed upon a person for some fault or misconduct, he being …

One who amerces.

Same as Amercement.

of Amerce

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

An amercement for blood-shed. Cowell

In Saxon and old English law. A fine, penalty, or amercement im-posed for defaults in the assise of bread. Cowell

An amercement or fine; a mulct

To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.

writ for taking a moderate amercement A writ, founded on Magna Charta, (c. 14,) which lay for one who was …

To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of …

A law was made by Canute, for the preservation of his Danes, that, when a man was killed, the hundred …