How To Use Assizes In A Sentence
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Have you interviewed the jurymen who are to sit at the Assizes?
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Twice a month, Guy de Trabant holds a court of assizes.
The World Above
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A prisoner at the assizes could not be tried for bigamy because he was suffering from influenza.
Times, Sunday Times
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In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions, or petty sessions.
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Juries at the assizes were then chosen from this panel of potential jurors.
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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
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A few weeks later he appeared at Chelmsford summer assizes, charged with causing an epidemic then raging in the town.
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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
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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“You thought to use the assizes to get close to the harp,” he said.
The World Above
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He was remanded in custody until the February assizes.
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He was remanded to await trial at Reading Assizes.
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The enforcement of the possessory assizes and measures against crime was now entrusted to royal justices, sent out on eyre (from Latin iter, a journey) to act as the king's agents.
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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
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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I wondered if it was the same one he had carried into the court of assizes.
The World Above
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Part of the reason for this rule was that the accused had to be physically present at assizes or quarter sessions.
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All this internal chain of feudal dependance is artificial and sophisticated; and I would rather hold the baton of my poor marquisate with a firm gripe, and wield it after my pleasure, than the sceptre of a monarch, to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem.
The Talisman
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He became the last man sentenced to hang by Bedford Assizes and was executed in the town's prison on April 4, 1962.
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The west gate wch I entred I came by a Large building of bricke within bricke walls, which is the hall for the assizes and sessions for the shire of Northumberland.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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IT passeth for a general report of what was customary in former times, that the sheriff of the county used to present the judge with a pair of white gloves at those which we call maiden assizes, viz. when no malefactor is put to death therein; a great rarity (though usual in small) in large and populous countries.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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These assizes introduced regular measures for the trial by royal judges of those suspected of serious crimes.
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While transporting Brennan to the assizes at Clonmel, his escort stopped to rest at a shebeen (an unlicensed or informal pub) and allowed him to enjoy his pipe.
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Its authority governed even the succession to the throne, in event of dispute between two members of the royal family; it alone was empowered to make laws or "assizes", and to its initiative was due the compilation of the "Assizes of Jerusalem", erroneously ascribed to Godfrey of Bouillon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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They were not to hold meetings, or to sit on assizes, or to be empanelled as jurymen, for any cause whatever; but were to be excluded from every office, for ever more.
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At one time members of the legal profession visiting York for the assizes would stay at a timbered building on Spurriergate.
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At the assizes the evidence against him was overwhelming.
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In addition, the assizes gave fast and clear verdicts, enriched the treasury and extended the King's control.
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Lord was compelled to take out a _Pone_ to have the matter tried before the Court of Common Pleas or the Justices in Eyre, that is, the assizes.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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In 1310 the king granted life exemption from tallages, prises, juries, assizes, and royal ministries to Nicholas de Fakenham of Lynn, who is not known to have held any office.
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The parties agreed that henceforth no baron or free tenant should be disseized of land or goods by the king's justices or servants without a trial according to the customs and assizes of the land, or by the direct orders of the king.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)