How To Use assizes In A Sentence
- Have you interviewed the jurymen who are to sit at the Assizes?
- Twice a month, Guy de Trabant holds a court of assizes. The World Above
- A prisoner at the assizes could not be tried for bigamy because he was suffering from influenza. Times, Sunday Times
- In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions, or petty sessions.
- Juries at the assizes were then chosen from this panel of potential jurors.
- I thought a reeve's work to rule fairly and uncover abuses and bring criminals to justice at the assizes was the matter at hand. Spirit Gate
- A few weeks later he appeared at Chelmsford summer assizes, charged with causing an epidemic then raging in the town.
- The signification of the word assizes in this connection is derived from the French verb asseoir, whose past participle is assis. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes. Hugh Muir's Diary
- “You thought to use the assizes to get close to the harp,” he said. The World Above