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

The villain fails in his assize and there has been no manumission, still it seems admitted that in this case the villain has acquired liberum tenementum by the lord's act.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

He had been brought up to consider that three kinds of death were natural--first, in his bed; secondly, by hanging at assize time; thirdly, of collapse when the potato crop went wrong.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

Most houses possessed the right to hold the assize of bread and ale and to fine alewives who overcharged or gave short measure.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen