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assize::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | judicial writ, writ |
assize::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ordinance, regulation |
Examples of assize
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Trade guilds met there, it was used as an assize court, corn exchange and corn hall.
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Their civil commissions were the commission of assize and the commission of nisi prius.
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Magna Carta was restored, as were the assize courts and the revenue.
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This income was supplemented through work on commissions of assize, goal deliveries, and oyer and terminer.
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Assize courts were held in Abingdon from 1570 but in the 17th century it was vying with Reading for County Town status.
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The judges of assize increased and multiplied.
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Cases became so complicated that a special assize, the Assize of Utrum was established in the middle of the 12th century.
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Michelle Martin, pictured in 2004, at Arlon assize court, Belgium, accused of the kidnapping of six girls and the death of two of them.
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Assize courts were held in the hall around 1605, and John Wesley preached from a pulpit stone on the open ground floor in 1748.
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- The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale
- An ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property
- (assizes) the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts)
- (Assizes (Ireland)) In the Republic of Ireland the Assizes, modelled on the English system, were replaced in the early years of the Irish Free State by the Circuit Court system in accordance with the Courts of Justice Act, 1924. ...
- A session or inquiry made before a court or jury; The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors
- (assizes) sessions held twice a year in areas outside London where law cases, too serious to be tried by local justice, were presided over by circuit-riding London judges. The assizes usually commenced with great ceremony.
- In Scotland this word is occasionally and formally used to mean a jury.
- Another term for jury; also a sitting of the court in locations away from the main court centre;
- Jury, or inquest. 2. assize herring; royalty of herring due to king from herring fishermen
