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

They were used, like the assizes of the high court, in Cyprus; and, like the other assizes, they were made the subject of investigation in 1531, with the object of discovering a good text.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

I never listen to speeches except when they put me on a jury at assizes.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

At the assizes at Bury, at the time we speak of, the sheriff’s pomp and state was something approaching to regal splendour.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard