The act of assessing and fixing the amount of a fine or penalty; the official determination of a fee or payment.
From 'affeer' (to assess) plus the suffix '-ment' (the act or process of). A legal term from medieval England describing the formal process of penalty assessment.
Legal systems created specific nouns for every action—'affeerment' shows how detailed and formalized medieval justice became, with its own vocabulary for each bureaucratic step.
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