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

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 Vinogradoff, Paul

Justices of assize, Justices of the Peace, and itinerant justices operated at the county level.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.

Mr. Brougham called himself a Whig, but Mrs. Gilson held him little better than a Radical--a kind of cattle seldom seen in those days outside the dock of an assize court.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.