assizes

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The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had fully intended to have obtained your discharge from the Ipswich gaol at these very assizes, had I heard the good report I received last year confirmed.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard

At the next county assizes for Somerset, held at Chard, in the year 1613, he was tried, found guilty, and condemned to death.

From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William

It must be remembered that he only gives the substantive law about common rights in the course of a discussion of the pleadings in actions 'quo jure' and assizes of pasture.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul