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
Justices of assize, Justices of the Peace, and itinerant justices operated at the county level.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
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
The tenant is ejected however, and brings an assize of mort d'ancestor against Beatrice of Montacute, who, as holding in dower, vouches her son John to warranty.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
