assize

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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

This fact was only mentioned before the assize court, and the president confined himself to saying that it was odd.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

"For the plaintiff," the foreman said, in answer to the question of the clerk of assize.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

The reply of Wedderburn was pointed and brilliant, and as rabid as if he had been summing up against an ordinary criminal at an ordinary assize.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell