assizes

/ əˈsaɪzɪz /

plural noun

1. (formerly in England and Wales) the sessions, usually held four times a year, of the principal court in each county, exercising civil and criminal jurisdiction, attended by itinerant judges: replaced in 1971 by crown courts

Example Sentences

The writer having carried the surveying chain, was present at the trial at the Bodmin assizes in 1829.

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It was necessary, however, that he should see her, when he came to Hertford at the spring assizes of 1699.

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On February 12, 1768, he was committed for trial at the spring assizes at Kingston, and acquitted in the following March.

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At the Winter Assizes 86 persons were tried for unlawful assembly, riot and conspiracy in connection with cattle-driving.

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And as to Galway, we may gather the state of affairs from the report of a case tried at the Winter Assizes of 1912.

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