assizes

Example Sentences

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The trial of 24-year-old Evans and Allen, who was 21, began on 23 June at Manchester Assizes.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2014

Now it was their turn for dread, and after sweating on their future for a few months, they appeared at Lancaster Assizes the following February.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2014

Browning was tried on 29 November 1876 at the Norwich Assizes.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2013

In the dirty, smoky Manchester Assizes a special telephone switchboard was set up with private circuits constantly open to the great organs of the a London Press � "just like in America."

From Time Magazine Archive

My case was set down for the last session of the Court of Assizes, and that session was due to end some time in June.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus