What is "assessors"

Usage examples of "assessors".

The prosecutors, the assessors and the attorneys charged with the defence wore long black robes, while the judge was splendid in scarlet.

Both these assessors were Shona: one was an expert on wildlife conservation, and the other a senior magistrate.

His place in the temples of the Sage has been that of one of his four assessors, since the year 1267.

And they assume unhesitatingly that the two or three score of canons and doctors of law and divinity who sat with Cauchon as assessors, were exact reproductions of him on slightly less elevated chairs and with a different headdress.

If they refuse to believe, with the Rouen assessors of 1431, that Joan was a witch, it is not because that explanation is too marvellous, but because it is not marvellous enough.

Some of the assessors take their seats: others stand chatting, waiting for the proceedings to begin formally.

The assessors rise in disorder, and follow the soldiers, except Ladvenu, who has hidden his face in his hands.

And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,--the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

He turned to his assessors and briefly tallied their response, which was unanimous.

Seneca, Burrus, and the other assessors were staring uncomprehendingly at Paul.

I ask you, noble Caesar and distinguished assessors, do we really want a new and noxious eastern cult in Rome?