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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

Those appointed by a court-leet to mulct those punishable, not by a fixed fine, but by an arbitrary sum, called "amercement." Termes de la Ley. AFFIANCE (Lat. affldare, ad, fidem, dare, to pledge to). An agreement by which a man and woman promise each other that they will marry together.

Poth. du Mar. note 24. Marriage. Co. Litt. 34a. See Dig. 23. 1. 1; Code, 5. 1. 4.