• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  •  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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  • 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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    (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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    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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