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sessions held twice a year in areas outside London where law cases, too serious to be tried by local justice, were presided over by circuit-riding London judges. The assizes usually commenced with great ceremony.
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The courts of assize, or assizes (z), were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The assizes heard the most serious cases, which were committed to it by the quarter sessions (local county c...
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[Ireland] The courts of assizes or assizes were the higher criminal court in Ireland outside Dublin prior to 1924 (and continued in Northern Ireland until 1978). They have now been abolished in both jurisdictions. ==Jurisdiction== The Assizes had jurisdiction outside Dublin over the most serious criminal offences, such as treason and murder...
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the most important courts held in most English counties, held twice a year and empowered to try *felonies and sentence convicts to death. Counties were grouped into circuits, and the Assizes were presided over by professional judges sent out from London to 'ride the circuits'. But see also *Great Sessions, *Old Bailey
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Obs.Fr. The laws imposed by the king with the consent of his nobles; the codification of laws, or a type of law court that ruled on customary law.
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Assizes is a term chiefly used in England to signify the sessions of the courts held at Westminster prior to Magna Carta, but thereafter appointed by successive enactments to be held annually in every county. Twelve judges, who are members of the highest courts in England, twice in every year perform a circuit into all the counties into which the k...
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n] - the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)
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[Treasure Island] court sessions held periodically in each county of England to try civil and criminal cases.
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court of assize noun the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)
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