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 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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

 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...

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...

The Corte d'Assise (English: Court of Assizes) is an Italian court composed of two professional, stipendiary judges or giudici togati; and six lay judges...

Patrick Newcastle upon Tyne Assizes 5 (1) (a) reduced to manslaughter on appeal 23 May 1957 Vickers, John Wilson Cumberland Assizes 5 (1) (a) hanged 28 June...

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...

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...

witchcraft in Huntingdon, England. She was condemned to death by Huntingdon assizes on 28 July 1716 along with her nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Hicks...

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...

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...

magistrates committed Dudley and Stephens to trial during the winter days of assizes in Exeter but extended their bail. Morality, ethics and legality of the...

"Doesn't everybody do it?" He was tried on 9 November at Herefordshire Assizes. Although disgusted by her son's actions, Fred's mother had been prepared...

In September 2020, he was cast as Kazuhiko Satō in Tasūketsu: Judgement Assizes. In June 2021, he was cast as Shōta Doi in World's End Harem. In August...

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...

but the body was exhumed. The pair were tried for murder at the Somerset assizes, with the jury delivering a guilty verdict without even retiring. Elizabeth...