The assizes (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions...

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)...

or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those. Courts of Assizes, a...

The Assizes of Capua were the first of three great legislative acts of the kingdom of Sicily of Frederick II of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor. They were...

The Assizes of Jerusalem are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French containing the law of the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem...

The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25 August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth...

The court of assizes (Dutch: hof van assisen, French: cour d'assises, German: Assisenhof) is the trial court which tries the most serious crimes in the...

circuits and reorganized the counties of England into six circuits where assizes were supposed to be held thrice yearly (but were more often held twice...

The Assizes of Romania (French: Assises de Romanie), formally the Book of the Usages and Statutes of the Empire of Romania (Venetian: Libro de le Uxanze...

Assizes Harbour is a Canadian hamlet in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Located on the Strait of Belle Isle along the Labrador coast, the nearest...

The European Assizes was a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments of the member states of the European Union in Rome...

Crown at the expense of the clergy. Henry, therefore, promulgated various assizes (i.e. courts that convened in a town periodically, rather than being permanently...

The Assizes of Ariano were a series of laws for the Kingdom of Sicily promulgated in the summer of 1140 at Ariano, near Benevento, by Roger II of Sicily...

The Council of Assizes, also referred to as the Court of Assize, was given power of making, altering and abolishing any laws of New York. The Court had...

In France, a cour d'assises, or Court of Assizes or Assize Court, is a criminal trial court with original and appellate limited jurisdiction to hear cases...

ten people by the use of witchcraft. All but two were tried at Lancaster Assizes on 18–19 August 1612, along with the Samlesbury witches and others, in...

The Assizes of Antioch are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French (then Armenian) containing the law of the crusader...

Before the Jury (Italian title: Corte d'Assise) is a 1931 Italian crime film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Marcella Albani, Lia Franca and Carlo...

Canada (French: États généraux du Canada français) were a series of three assizes held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada between 1966 and 1969. Organized by the...

points in time. Lent assizes were held at Reading, where the county gaol and house of correction were situated; summer assizes were held at Abingdon...

 1495?) by Nicholas Statham. The author of the Abridgement of the Book of Assizes (c. 1510) is unknown. This book is sometimes called Liber Assisarum, after...

Rebellion, Judge Jeffreys held the Bloody Assizes on 27 August 1685: the accused at the Winchester assizes included Alice Lisle who was condemned to death...

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This court was abolished by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873. The Assizes for the county of Durham were held twice a year, about the first week in...

For more serious cases judges visited each county twice a year for the assizes. In some larger counties the practice arose of holding the quarter sessions...

little better than most other judges of his era.' One session of the Bloody Assizes was held in Dorchester on 5 September, in the Oak Room (now a tea room)...

For example, Medieval England's system of travelling criminal courts, or assizes, used show trials and public executions to instill communities with fear...

The Shire Hall is a public building in Stafford, England, completed in 1798 to a design by John Harvey. Formerly a courthouse, it housed an art gallery...

Robert de Auberville (de Albervilla, in Latin), of Iham (Higham, in Icklesham) and Iden, Sussex, representative of a wealthy Norman family in Kent and...

opened a new suit against him for libel. The case was brought before the Assizes of Seine-et-Oise in Versailles where the public was considered more favourable...