assizes

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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

Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never listen to speeches except when they put me on a jury at assizes.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

He made the journeys to London, he attended the sessions and assizes at Westerbury; but it very often happened that, when a client called at the office, neither would be there.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

At this moment of condemnation you refer to your intention of obtaining my discharge at these assizes.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard