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
Bracton says, that in such cases the usual assizes and actions do not lie, and the 'little writ of right close' must be used 'according to the custom of the manor.'
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
It must be remembered that he only gives the substantive law about common rights in the course of a discussion of the pleadings in actions 'quo jure' and assizes of pasture.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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 Richard Cobbold
