Examples of 'assizes' in a sentence

Meaning of "assizes"

Assize historically refers to a court session or the process of assessing or regulating something. In modern usage, it may also refer to a standard or regulation regarding the size or dimensions of an object
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  • plural of assize
  • The regional courts of Great Britain, which were replaced by the Crown Courts in 1971.
  • A trial or hearing before such a court.

How to use "assizes" in a sentence

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The assizes judged in favour of the prior.
You argue your case in the assizes.
The assizes did not mention this subject.
I am looking forward to seeing you at the assizes.
I must convene the assizes because of these women.
I will look into it at the winter assizes.
Stood trial at the assizes and now are condemned to death.
The trial was postponed to the summer assizes.
Assizes of jerusalem.
His contempt of court at the last assizes.
Twelve men were accidentally hanged at whitby assizes this afternoon whilst considering their verdict.
The gagnon case at the quebec assizes.
The Assizes survive in only two composite juridical manuscripts.
I may sit here till the next assizes.
The court of Assizes jury has been out for four hours.

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After graduating he was appointed a justice of assizes.
During the Bloody Assizes hundreds of rebels were dispatched in less than a month.
I am committing you for trial at the next assizes.
A series of trials known as the Bloody Assizes took place to punish the rebels.
You will be committed for trial at the next assizes.
For the first time a Belgian court of assizes will try a case of suspected genocide.
And the jurisdiction of an assizes.
The Assizes judge rejected this submission.
I love the scottish assizes.
The Birmingham assizes under the UK presidency address this issue.
These crimes were sent for trial at the periodic assizes.
It is now referred to the Assizes at Winchester.
I will do my best to look into it at the next winter assizes.
He was convicted at the Huntingdon Assizes and sentenced to death by hanging.
As he was used to practice at the assizes of.
You knew the Time of the Assizes as well as any Person here.
The elections take place the same days as the assizes.
The Court of Assizes acquitted him.
The elections take place the same day as the assizes.
Assizes of Ariano.
The great charter provided for land disputes to be tried by annual assizes.
He was charged to appear at Northampton Assizes but was allowed bail.
The result was a trial before the correctional court and not for assizes.
Assizes of Clarendon.
Burley had been the object of the attention of local clergy during the assizes.
ALL that remains is for the judge of assizes to finish it off.
Defence of a politician accused of rape and acquitted by the Court of Assizes.
Assizes of Romania.
This was clearly underlined at the Rome assizes.
Assizes of all the parliaments to assert themselves, to reassure themselves.
I am committing you for trial at the Bodmin assizes.
I'm committing you for trial at the next assizes with recommendation that you be sentenced.
William Ponsonby committed them for trial at the assizes.
It was also one of the seats of the Bloody Assizes of Hanging Judge Jeffreys.
Cases against juveniles are not heard speedily at the Assizes.

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