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
He had been brought up to consider that three kinds of death were natural--first, in his bed; secondly, by hanging at assize time; thirdly, of collapse when the potato crop went wrong.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
The plaintiff replies that he was enfranchised by being suffered to plead in an assize of mort d'ancestor against B.P.'s grandmother.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
If one sets aside all spectacular elements in the judgment, and even denies altogether any great single final assize for all men, still he cannot avoid the thought of some judgment upon his life.
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King
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