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“Not to maltreat
or amerce,” says the statute. What does that mean? Every one, I am
sure, understands that not to maltreat means that there is to be no scourging,
no binding nor anything like that, and that not to amerce means not to extort
blood-money, for the ancients called fining amercement.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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