How To Use Assize In A Sentence
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He was remanded to await trial at Reading Assizes.
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Part of the reason for this rule was that the accused had to be physically present at assizes or quarter sessions.
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The parties agreed that henceforth no baron or free tenant should be disseized of land or goods by the king's justices or servants without a trial according to the customs and assizes of the land, or by the direct orders of the king.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
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In 1310 the king granted life exemption from tallages, prises, juries, assizes, and royal ministries to Nicholas de Fakenham of Lynn, who is not known to have held any office.
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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Lord was compelled to take out a _Pone_ to have the matter tried before the Court of Common Pleas or the Justices in Eyre, that is, the assizes.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
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After Preston's death he received appointment as one of the regular justices of the newly established assize circuits in 1274.
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The fourth part regards the Assize of Novel Deseisin as an exemplar, makes brief illumination for development and accomplishment of early royal writs or actions of form.
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In addition, the assizes gave fast and clear verdicts, enriched the treasury and extended the King's control.
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At the assizes the evidence against him was overwhelming.
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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At one time members of the legal profession visiting York for the assizes would stay at a timbered building on Spurriergate.
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They were not to hold meetings, or to sit on assizes, or to be empanelled as jurymen, for any cause whatever; but were to be excluded from every office, for ever more.
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Its authority governed even the succession to the throne, in event of dispute between two members of the royal family; it alone was empowered to make laws or "assizes", and to its initiative was due the compilation of the "Assizes of Jerusalem", erroneously ascribed to Godfrey of Bouillon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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While transporting Brennan to the assizes at Clonmel, his escort stopped to rest at a shebeen (an unlicensed or informal pub) and allowed him to enjoy his pipe.
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The defendant also had to be imprisoned in a gaol at the victim's expense until an assize, where a judge of sufficient seniority could conduct a trial.
English Witchcraft Trials In Perspective
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Statute of Winchester (1285), in which it is enacted that "every man have in his house harness for to keep the peace after the ancient assize, that is to say, every man between fifteen years of age and sixty years.
Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government
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These assizes introduced regular measures for the trial by royal judges of those suspected of serious crimes.
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And such challenges may be used as an instrument of delay or vexation at every assize throughout the kingdom.
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IT passeth for a general report of what was customary in former times, that the sheriff of the county used to present the judge with a pair of white gloves at those which we call maiden assizes, viz. when no malefactor is put to death therein; a great rarity (though usual in small) in large and populous countries.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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The west gate wch I entred I came by a Large building of bricke within bricke walls, which is the hall for the assizes and sessions for the shire of Northumberland.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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The juries under the Grand Assize replied under oath to inquiries by the sheriff or the justices on questions relating to right to land or questions of disseisin of land.
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When Kemmache sought release on bail once again, this was refused by the Assize Court.
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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He became the last man sentenced to hang by Bedford Assizes and was executed in the town's prison on April 4, 1962.
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The editorial writer in The Lancet of December 22, 1866 was scathing about Mr Brown and about The Times, calling, with vigorous irony, for a "grand assize of clitoridectomy" at which the lunatic asylums of Europe would be cleared by means of what Mr Baker Brown "with the pardonable pride of an inventor, calls my invention".
Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
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After Preston's death he received appointment as one of the regular justices of the newly established assize circuits in 1274.
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All this internal chain of feudal dependance is artificial and sophisticated; and I would rather hold the baton of my poor marquisate with a firm gripe, and wield it after my pleasure, than the sceptre of a monarch, to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem.
The Talisman
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Have you interviewed the jurymen who are to sit at the Assizes?
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In an assize of novel disseisin brought by one Richard and Roburga his wife against one W.G., it was found by verdict that one H.G. and J. his wife as of the right of J. had been seised etc.
Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!
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I wondered if it was the same one he had carried into the court of assizes.
The World Above
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‘In the past, any sergeant who failed to answer the summons was guilty of an offence and liable to fines or the pillory,’ said assize organiser Maureen Singleton.
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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The signification of the word assizes in this connection is derived from the French verb asseoir, whose past participle is assis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The enforcement of the possessory assizes and measures against crime was now entrusted to royal justices, sent out on eyre (from Latin iter, a journey) to act as the king's agents.
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It was let for £14.10s and was said to consist of assized rents, tolls of the market and fairs.
Charter Market in Cricklade celebrates its 750th anniversary
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He was remanded in custody until the February assizes.
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“You thought to use the assizes to get close to the harp,” he said.
The World Above
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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The signification of the word assizes in this connection is derived from the French verb asseoir, whose past participle is assis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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A few weeks later he appeared at Chelmsford summer assizes, charged with causing an epidemic then raging in the town.
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I thought a reeve's work to rule fairly and uncover abuses and bring criminals to justice at the assizes was the matter at hand.
Spirit Gate
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In 1262, being the 51st of Henry III. was revived an ancient statute, called the assize of bread and ale, which, the king says in the preamble, had been made in the times of his progenitors, some time kings of England.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The Shire Hall was the scene of much pomp and ceremony when the Assize courts sat and the red-robed judges with their colourful entourages arrived to a fanfare of trumpets after attending the traditional church service in St Mary's.
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The Assize Courts building, dates from 1835 and boasts one of the finest neo-classical frontages in Wiltshire.
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Chief Justice of England under Henry VII., says, "If I am disseised of a manor, and the tenants pay their rent to the disseisor, and then I re-enter, I shall not have the back rent of my tenants which they have paid to my disseisor, but the disseisor shall pay for all in trespass or assize.
The Common Law
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Juries at the assizes were then chosen from this panel of potential jurors.
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This, however, would mean that ‘the business of every assize in the kingdom might effectually be stopped.’
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Our judges lie under no such restraint; for both they and the rest of the court make no difficulty of receiving _gloves_ from the sheriffs, whenever the session or assize concludes without any one receiving sentence of death, which is called a _maiden assize_; a custom of great antiquity.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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The reports are in the National Archives, at Kew, south-west London, because they were given to assize judges on circuit, then taken to London.
The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link
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The assize judge ate A flycatcher hung above the fireplace, a bluebottle buzzing day, which is why I took my fieldglasses.
THE OPEN DOOR
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In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions, or petty sessions.
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In the Assize Court today the jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306 which has become known as the Bardi Theorem.
PROSECUTOR
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A prisoner at the assizes could not be tried for bigamy because he was suffering from influenza.
Times, Sunday Times
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The face in the sepia photograph is taut and strained, the glare fixed and defiant – for who knows the trials Mary Morrison had already undergone in life before her conviction at Manchester assize courts on 16 July 1883?
Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
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The Assize courts were presided over by High Court judges out on circuit.
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Twice a month, Guy de Trabant holds a court of assizes.
The World Above
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In an assize of novel disseisin brought by one Richard and Roburga his wife against one W.G., it was found by verdict that one H.G. and J. his wife as of the right of J. had been seised etc.
Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!
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/1/So, throughout the whole course of the canon law and in the early law of England, rents were regarded as so far a part of the realty as to be capable of possession and disseisin, and they could be recovered like land by all assize.
The Common Law
