assize
Example Sentences
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Divorce proceedings were fixed for 27 October 1936 at Ipswich assize court.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2019
Last week an assize court jury in Kingston took only ten minutes to find Johnson not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
If ignorance would see its own degradation, would feel the incalculable depth of its abjectness, let it sometimes sit for instruction in an assize court.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
It is an assize of novel disseisin brought by a certain William the son of Henry against his lord Bartholomew the son of Eustace.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
The tenant is ejected however, and brings an assize of mort d'ancestor against Beatrice of Montacute, who, as holding in dower, vouches her son John to warranty.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
