Affeer

— Afere. [L. Lat. afferare, from Fr. afferer, affeurer, or afforer, to tax, assess, or set a value upon a thing 1 In old practice. To assess or tax;

— to fix, liquidate, or reduce to a precise sum;

— to moderate, mitigate or regulate.* A term applied to the regulation of amercements, which were always inflicted in general terms, and signifying to reduce the general amercement to a certainty, or tax, moderate or mitigate it according to the particular circumstances of the offence and the offender. Cotoell. Blount. JSpelman, voc. Affera- 4 BL Com. 379, 380. IM, 129 a. F.y,B.l5l.K. Id.l6A.D. s Co.11, [39, 40.] 1 Salk. 56. 3 Id. 33. The officers by whom this was done were called affeerors, and the assessment an affeerment, or afferance, (qq. v.) 4 BL Com. 379, 380.

See Amercement.