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v. Present participle of amerce.

"That _avenging_ the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was _taking the master's life_ we infer."

amerced    amerces    amercing   

penalise    penalize    punish    ticket    fine   

amercement   

mulct    fine