assize
Example Sentences
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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
Taxation and army. the judgment of them from the assize courts to the correctional tribunals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
I said nothing, but I made a note of each, and have the complete record in a certain volume which will possibly be produced one day in a court of assize.
From A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh
"For the plaintiff," the foreman said, in answer to the question of the clerk of assize.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
