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How to use terminer in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word terminer? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
At first in the General Eyre and later under the commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, they would hear criminal cases.
Following the outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Salem, Phips appointed Stoughton chief justice of the newly formed court of oyer and terminer.
Their criminal commissions were the commission of the peace, the commission of oyer and terminer and the commission of gaol delivery.
Presentment of a felo de se before justices of peace, or oyer and terminer, traversable by the executor.
This income was supplemented through work on commissions of assize, goal deliveries, and oyer and terminer.
Later that month, Governor Phips prohibited any further jailing and dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
The best known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.
Examples from Classical Literature
Courts in which crimes are tried are sometimes called courts of oyer and terminer.
It was to be expected, then, that they should insist that none but themselves should sit on the new court of oyer and terminer.
For that reason I refuse to sit in the court of oyer and terminer with those gentlemen.
It was held, in accordance with the Virginian act, by a commission of oyer and terminer, appointed by the governor.
The test came in December, 1718, when the court of oyer and terminer was about to begin its session.
The season, and manner of doing it, is such, that the Court of oyer and Terminer count themselves thereby dismissed.
Mr. Russel asked, whether the Court of oyer and Terminer should sit, expressing some fear of inconvenience by its fall.
The Commission of oyer and Terminer is now busy trying them and others.
No courts of oyer and Terminer, at vast expense to the people.
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