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- noun Plural form of
assise .
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Examples
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The case is being held in the Abdijan assises court, which has not met since the west African country's political unrest in 2002.
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In France, people are randomly selected to serve on a criminal assises court for quite a long period, although I forget how long.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mandatory Jury Service and the Thirteenth Amendment:
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Ce prince 閠oit, comme son p鑢e, entour� de trois personnes assises.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Meanwhile, a newspaper in Belgium reported Tuesday that the two nuns sentenced by Brussels 'assises court to 15 ane 12 years in prison for their role in the Rwandan genocide are to file a suit against the Belgian government with the European Court of Human
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The king caused these iustices to sweare vpon the holie euangelists, that they should kéepe his assises which he first had ordeined at Clarendon, and after had renewed here at
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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_Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb.
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Also of grand assises that were of an hundred shillings land or vnder, and of defaults, and of diuerse other things, the iurats were charged to inquire, and present the same.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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On the morrow after, he held a court of plees of the crowne, of assises, and such other matters touching the king.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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The "Assizes of Jerusalem" (les assises de Jerusalem) are the code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of
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What are called 'white sessions' (assises blanches), for the matter of that, are of no infrequent occurrence in the department of the Lozère, eminently an honest one.
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