assize

• They, when the assize was ended, sent for us to be brought before them at their inn, and fined us, as I remember, six shillings and eightpence apiece, which we not consenting to pay, they committed us to prison again for one month from that time, on the Act for banishment. —  The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself
• Yet at his assize, as several credible persons have affirmed, John Perry still persisted in his story that his mother and brother had murdered his master, and further added that they had attempted to poison him in gaol, so that he durst neither eat nor drink with them. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• This concealment becomes criminal if the party apprised of the [act] does not as soon as conveniently may be reveal it to some judge of assize or justice of the peace. —  Crimlaw
• Minister of Justice and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne leads a procession of judges into the East Queen Street Baptist Church, downtown Kingston, for the assize service to mark the opening of the Michaelmas session of the Home Circuit Court yesterday. —  Jamaica Gleaner Online
• And which stage shall contain in length forty and three foot of lawful assize, and in breadth to extend to the middle of the yard of the said house. —  Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

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