assizes

assizes
Sessions of the judges; more specifically, the sessions of the two or more judges who were sent out as commissioners of the king semiannually by the king's commission from Westminster on circuits covering the kingdom to try before a jury of the appropriate county any cases which were assigned to them. These judges were called judges of assize or judges of assize and nisi prius.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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(of the superior courts in the counties of England)


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