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
On the cases when an assize could be taken as to tenements in ancient demesne, see the opinion printed in Horwood's Introduction to Y.B.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
And where was the action commenced?—Before the county magistrates,—or at sessions,—or at assize?
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
The result of the whole assize has been that out of the 2,316 stanzas 1,437 have been honorably acquitted; the rest have been italicised, bracketed, or both....
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
