assizes

The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, is the name of criminal courts in several countries. In France, Belgium an Italy the court is still in use. The Assizes is the highest court. The word assize refers to the sittings or sessions (Old French assises) of the judges, known as "justices of assize".

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Author Topic: Lancashire Assizes #Lancashire
the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I should wish to spare Alice the
that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the Assizes."
... But the Summer Assizes at the Crown Court did deal with the full range of life & crime across Dorset, and it's important to reflect that
@SempaiScuba The LMA's medieval Assizes of Nuisance are wonderfully descriptive on all this sort of thing
Dedicated to Dame Alice Lisle and other victims of the Bloody Assizes. RIP brothers and sisters. :) -BL
next Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out before

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