assizes
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Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Herefordshire was governed by a sheriff as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, the shire-court meeting at Hereford where later the assizes and quarter sessions were also held.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Examinations would be conducted, assizes would be held, and for all I knew, Mr. Herbert might be condemned and hanged while we were yet marching and countermarching upon the borders.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Bracton says, that in such cases the usual assizes and actions do not lie, and the 'little writ of right close' must be used 'according to the custom of the manor.'
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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