assizes
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Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Examinations would be conducted, assizes would be held, and for all I knew, Mr. Herbert might be condemned and hanged while we were yet marching and countermarching upon the borders.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
With this she returned to the city at which the assizes had been held, just as they were concluded.
It must be remembered that he only gives the substantive law about common rights in the course of a discussion of the pleadings in actions 'quo jure' and assizes of pasture.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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