| Breakfast was just oyer, the table with its relics of fragrant bloaters and terrine of pat still stood in the patio. |
| Their criminal commissions were the commission of the peace, the commission of oyer and terminer and the commission of gaol delivery. |
| At first in the General Eyre and later under the commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, they would hear criminal cases. |
| The test came in December, 1718, when the court of oyer and terminer was about to begin its session. |
| It was to be expected, then, that they should insist that none but themselves should sit on the new court of oyer and terminer. |
| It was held, in accordance with the Virginian act, by a commission of oyer and terminer, appointed by the governor. |
