assize

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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

Three shillings Scotch, at the time when this assize is supposed to have been enacted, were equal to about nine shillings sterling of our present money.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain

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 Marsh, Richard

The assize hall and sessions house dates from 1774.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various