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 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 Vinogradoff, Paul

This fact was only mentioned before the assize court, and the president confined himself to saying that it was odd.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Doubtless the first Vermuyden had things to contend with, and at assize ball and sessions got but two fingers from the De Coverleys and their long-descended dames.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.