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    The assizes (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions...
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  • or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those. Courts of Assizes, a...
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  • 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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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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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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    The Assizes of Antioch are a collection of numerous medieval legal treatises written in Old French (then Armenian) containing the law of the crusader...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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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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  • 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...
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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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    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...
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    cost of £21,644, was completed in 1861. It became the main venue for the assizes from 1867 when Abingdon County Hall ceded that role to Reading. The design...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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  • Used in that way, the term has had no currency since the abolition of assizes in 1971. Before the reforms of the Judicature Act 1873, civil cases at...
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    hanged at Armley Gaol. Pankotia was tried, convicted and sentenced at Leeds Assizes (then seated at Leeds Town Hall). The hanging was the first in Leeds since...
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  • rebuilding Shire Halls, County Halls, and other Buildings for holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also Judges Lodgings, throughout England and Wales...
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