To assess or fix the amount of a fine or payment; to determine officially the value or rate of something.
From Old French 'afferer' (to tax or assess), likely from Medieval Latin 'afferre' (to bring to). Used in medieval law to describe the act of setting penalties.
This legal term vanished from everyday use but left traces in 'affeerment'—medieval courts were obsessed with precisely calculating fines, and 'affeer' was their verb for this bureaucratic task.
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