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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context plurale tantum English) The regional courts of Great Britain, which were replaced by the crown courts in 1971. 2 A trial or hearing before such a court. 3 (plural of assize English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
n. the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by crown courts) [syn: court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius]
Wikipedia
Assize or Assizes may refer to:
:;in common law countries :
::* assizes (England and Wales), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
::* assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
::* Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
::* Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
::* Assize (Scotland)
::* writ of assize, the ancient writ issued by an English court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery
::* Justices of Assize
:;in captured territories :
::* Council of Assizes formed after the capture of New York from the Dutch
:;a modern court in civil law countries:
::* Court of Assize (Belgium), legal court in Belgium
::* Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies
::* Corte d'Assise, Italian court
:;the law of a country, specifically:
::* Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
::* Assizes of Ariano, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
::* Assizes of Romania, law of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
::* Assizes of Capua, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1220)
::* Assizes of Antioch, translated in medieval times by Sempad the Constable
:;a meeting:
::* European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990
:;a regulation:
::* Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight and quality of the bread and beer
The courts of assize, or assizes , were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The assizes exercised both civil and criminal jurisdiction, though most of their work was on the criminal side. The assizes heard the most serious cases, which were committed to it by the quarter sessions (local county courts held four times per year), while the more minor offences were dealt with summarily by justices of the peace in petty sessions (also known as magistrates' courts).
The word assize refers to the sittings or sessions ( Old French assises) of the judges, known as "justices of assize", who were judges who travelled across the seven circuits of England and Wales on commissions of " oyer and terminer", setting up court and summoning juries at the various assize towns.
The courts of assizes or assizes were the higher criminal court in Ireland outside Dublin prior to 1924 (and continued in Northern Ireland until 1978). They have now been abolished in both jurisdictions.
Usage examples of "assizes".
If Sassinak was right about the probable trial date, in the Winter Assizes (and that was an archaic term, she thought), then she had to complete her refresher course in Discipline, whatever medical refreshers were required for recertifi-cation, get to Diplo, and back to Sassinak (or the information back to Sassinak) in a mere eight months.
This incursion is timed to coincide with the meeting of the Grand Council and the Winter Assizes, at which the presence of many ships could well cause confusion.
Come to dunk of it, without the Iretan's trial, the Winter Assizes were mostly commercial cases this time.
The affair would go before the assizes, and in all the newspapers there would be mention of the "A.
So little that it counted for nothing, and would have held no place in his thoughts if it had not been mixed in his mind with the accusation that would send Florentin to the assizes.
CHAPTER XXIII STUNNING NEWS On going to see Nougarede, Saniel vaguely fancied the lawyer would tell him that an acquittal was certain if Florentin passed to the assizes, and even that an 'ordonnance de non-lieu' was probable.
You may be sure if the affair goes to the assizes that you will hear these words and more, and I assure you that it will be difficult for us to destroy the impression that he will produce on the jury.
He had to give up the idea of obtaining the 'ordonnance de non-lieu', and to tell himself that the 'affaire' would come before the assizes.
Nougarede believed that the delay in bringing the affair before the assizes was caused by the attempts to learn if, during his residence in America, Florentin had not worked in some large meat-shop or sheepfold, where he would have learned to use a butcher knife, which was the chief point for the accusation.
Come to dunk of it, without the Iretan’s trial, the Winter Assizes were mostly commercial cases this time.
Easy enough to send an all too special ship to collect them to attend the Assizes.
He appointed Labienus over the winter-quarters, and set out in person for Hither Gaul to hold the assizes.
He himself, on the assizes of Hither Gaul being concluded, proceeds into Illyricum, because he heard that the part of the province nearest them was being laid waste by the incursions of the Pirustae.
For the year before, while Caesar was holding the assizes in Hither Gaul, Titus Labienus, having discovered that Comius was tampering with the state, and raising a conspiracy against Caesar, thought he might punish his infidelity without perfidy.
Having spent a few days in the province, he quickly ran through all the business of the assizes, settled all public disputes, and distributed rewards to the most deserving.