[f. AFFEER + -MENT.] The action of affeering or assessing.
1642. Termes de la Ley, 13. The amerciment is the act of the Court, & the affeerement the act of the Jury.
1738. Hist. View Crt. Excheq., iii. 39. They assessed the Escuage, which was the Nature of an Afferement of a Sum of money.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., IV. IV. xxix. 379. By the assessment or affeerment of the coroner.
