Examples of 'assize' in a sentence
Meaning of "assize"
Assize (noun) historically refers to a session of a court or the practice of determining of legal cases and controversies in the court of justice
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- A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
- The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
- An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
- A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
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The assize jury is constituted by successive ballots.
The judge goes upon assize at an appointed time.
I will have them before the assize.
An assize court is constituted each time an accused person is referred to it.
You may end up in the court of assize.
The youth assize court.
They expected we should be hanged at the assize.
Because it will be up to the assize court to provide a definitive answer.
I am committing you for trial at the assize court.
The trumpet of assize brings no music to the ears of criminals.
Judgements of the juvenile assize courts.
The assize sections also have jurisdiction over other serious crimes.
They expected that we would be hanged at the assize.
The juvenile assize court.
Assize of fuel c.
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To refer a case to the assize court.
Assize of clarendon.
This court shall sit when the assize court is in session.
The clerk of the appeal court shall act as clerk of the juvenile assize court.
It was converted into a market hall and assize hall and later fell into ruin.
Assize of the decisions taken by administrative bodies Conformity to legal procedure.
Composition of an assize jury.
Assize is a word sometimes used in Scots law to mean a trial by jury.
The stern assize.
The Assize of Arms needs to be seen in this context.
Plural form of assize.
He went regularly on assize to Connaught and Ulster.
And your conscience does not drag you into the assize court.
And to the sad assize of Memory.
I might even say my crimes since after all it is an Assize Court.
It is up to the Court of Assize to administer justice.
Rape and attempted rape are crimes subject to the same penalties before the Assize Court.
Questions had been asked about the membership of the assize courts trying cases involving terrorism.
Assize Death of the participant ascendant.
The six jurors shall be those chosen by lot for the assize court session.
Only the Assize Court is competent to try criminal cases.
You must hold out till the Assize hearing.
The Assize court is in session.
He continued to go regularly on assize to Ulster.
The Assize court is entering.
He will however be tried in his absence by the special assize court in Paris.
Commissioners of Assize could be appointed.
The ordinary European chess of the time was sometimes called the long assize to distinguish.
The Assize Court does not convene regularly.
The same year he accepted appointment as a Commissioner of Assize.
The Assize Court hearing is hereby adjourned.
Extensive experience in criminal cases tried by the Assize Courts.
The Assize Court hereby returns its verdict.
Pupils were given a holiday when the Assize Judge visited.
Assize Court and the Court of Cassation should have reacted.
