affeer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AFFEE'R, verb transitive To confirm. [Not used.] AFFEE'R, verb transitive In law, to assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to reduce a general amercement to a sum certain, according to the circumstances of the case.
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