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These assizes introduced regular measures for the trial by royal judges of those suspected of serious crimes.
Juries at the assizes were then chosen from this panel of potential jurors.
Part of the reason for this rule was that the accused had to be physically present at assizes or quarter sessions.
While transporting Brennan to the assizes at Clonmel, his escort stopped to rest at a shebeen and allowed him to enjoy his pipe.
At one time members of the legal profession visiting York for the assizes would stay at a timbered building on Spurriergate.
In addition, the assizes gave fast and clear verdicts, enriched the treasury and extended the King's control.
In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions, or petty sessions.
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.
The enforcement of the possessory assizes and measures against crime was now entrusted to royal justices, sent out on eyre to act as the king's agents.
The Courts Act of 1971 continued the modernization with the abolition of quarter sessions and assizes.
Coutances is the seat of a court of assizes and a subprefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce.
Civil assizes were replaced by allowing the High Court to sit at certain cities.
What's more, to be assigned to the court of assizes allows me to be at the front line of events that greatly influence our society.
Right now, I am what they call an assizes judge, meaning that I preside over cases that are heard by a jury.
It has it again in mind that it is on the occasion of its assizes in YAOUNDE in 2003 that the idea and the call to the creation of ARMFA started.
So the situation is moving towards an assizes trial where most of the accused will be tried in their absence.
The National Archives holds most of the surviving historical records of the assizes.
He refused to give an assurance that he would not repeat the offense, was condemned at the assizes in January 1661, and was imprisoned in the county jail.
The expected trial will not start until next year's session of the court of assizes and most of the accused will probably be tried in their absence.
The juries under the assizes began deciding guilt as well as providing accusations.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On the eighth day of the assizes there were but fifty of us left in the wool warehouse.
The judges had been directed to look again into the matter at the midsummer assizes.
He was referred to assizes, but got away in the meanwhile, and so saved his neck.
The assizes were to take place only a fortnight after the date of Reuben's committal.
The honest Minister, not having succeeded in getting his enemy shot as a Communard, summoned him before the assizes for libel.
She was committed for trial at the assizes, as the magistrate had no ducking-stool.
Tales of the bench and assizes and annals of the bluecoat school.
Cornwall is in the western circuit, and assizes are held at bodmin.
Denbighshire is in the N. Wales circuit, assizes being held at Ruthin.
Because the assizes of Paphlagonia have already so laid it down.
His ignorance of law was soon shewn at the Lancaster assizes.
At the trial of Roubaud he acted as assessor to the assizes.
The assizes begin here at Carmarthen on the 29th of next month.
There have been several before the assizes in various cities of Europe.
Meere succeeded at the assizes in sustaining his right to the bailiwick.
Various offences hitherto only triable at Assizes, transferred to the jurisdiction of Quarter Sessions.
Jobling was tried at Durham Assizes, and condemned to be hanged and gibbeted.
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