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)....
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England and Wales Assize (Scotland), in Scots law a trial by jury Assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize) Cour d'assises, French...
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Northern Ireland. Prior to the partition of Ireland, Northern Ireland was part of the courts system of Ireland. After partition, Northern Ireland's courts...
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Cour d'assises (redirect from Appeal court of assizes)
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...
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it in the hands of the IRA. In June–July 1920, assizes failed all across the south and west of Ireland; trials by jury could not be held because jurors...
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an associated county town, with county courts of quarter sessions and assizes. The area of the modern counties of Antrim and Down was the Earldom of...
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Circuit court (redirect from Warwick Assizes)
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...
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really what caused it at all. Bratty's trial was heard at the Downpatrick Assizes, and his defence team proposed alternative verdicts, namely That Bratty...
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County Tipperary (redirect from County Tipperary, Ireland)
The county town of Clonmel, where the grand jury held its twice-yearly assizes, is at the southern limit of the county, and roads leading north were poor...
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County town (category Towns in Ireland)
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...
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Pendle witches (section York Assizes, 27 July 1612)
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...
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Court of quarter sessions (section Ireland)
with the commencement of the Courts Act 1971, which replaced them and the assizes with a single permanent Crown Court. In Scotland, they survived until 1975...
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In Ireland, a barony (Irish: barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties...
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parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland). For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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Redmond Barry (category Irish-Australian culture)
"Calendar of Prisoners of the High Sheriff of County Cork at Summer Assizes". Irish Archives Resource. Retrieved 26 October 2024. "HIS HONOR SIR REDMOND...
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parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland). For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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High Sheriff of County Cork at Summer Assizes". Irish Archives Resource. Retrieved 2024-10-24. Office, Ireland Genealogical (1880). "Grants and Confirmations...
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Books of authority (redirect from Abridgement of the Book of Assizes)
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...
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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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Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 98) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which repealed, as to Ireland, certain acts...
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Grand jury (redirect from Grand jury (Ireland))
referred to the grand jury during the same assizes or sessions, it could be preferred at subsequent assizes or sessions, but not in respect of the same...
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Isle of Man on 25 July 1991. This act was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision...
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This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo-Irish War) of 1919–21. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most...
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Abortion in the United Kingdom (redirect from Abortion in Northern Ireland)
(11 & 12 Geo 6 c 58), section 1(1) R v Buck and Buck, 44 Cr App R 213, Assizes, per Edmund Davies J.; R v Creamer [1966] 1 QB 72, 49 Cr App R 368, [1965]...
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shorthand and Ireland. His notable cases included leading the defence of Mary Ann Cotton in 1873 and the prosecution of Charles Peace at Leeds Assizes in 1879...
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Road' in the 1860s, and led a mob evicting Catholics. In the county Antrim Assizes of 1873, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. Louis Scott...
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James II of England (redirect from James II of Ireland)
West Indies in a series of trials that came to be known as the Bloody Assizes. Around 250 of the rebels were executed. While both rebellions were defeated...
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parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland). For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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of liberties. c. 5 A justice, with two knights, in each county, to hold assizes, gaol delivery, etc. c. 6 Chief Justiciar in his journeys to enquire as...
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Walter Raleigh (category People of Elizabethan Ireland)
trial under commission of Oyer and Terminer with a jury, at a court of assizes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2010. White, Penny J...
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