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assizes

noun as in judiciary

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The writer having carried the surveying chain, was present at the trial at the Bodmin assizes in 1829.

It was necessary, however, that he should see her, when he came to Hertford at the spring assizes of 1699.

On February 12, 1768, he was committed for trial at the spring assizes at Kingston, and acquitted in the following March.

At the Winter Assizes 86 persons were tried for unlawful assembly, riot and conspiracy in connection with cattle-driving.

And as to Galway, we may gather the state of affairs from the report of a case tried at the Winter Assizes of 1912.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assizes, such as: bar, bench, court, courts, judicature, and justices.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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