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
The representations made by the magistrates at the last assizes will be sufficient testimony up to that time; and since then, you cannot say that you deserve any defence.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
I never listen to speeches except when they put me on a jury at assizes.
From Second String by Hope, Anthony
The county is in the Oxford circuit, and assizes are held at Hereford.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
