court of assizes

The town is the seat of a bishop, a prefecture, and a court of assizes.

"Give me your honest tally, and I will be content with that until weweigh it at the court of assizes in England."

In 1955 he was convicted by a court of assizes in Augsburg for assisting in murder and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Indeed, juvenile criminal system has its own intervener: the children judge, the court of assizes of minors, the court of appeal minors' chamber.

Saint-Omer is the seat of a court of assizes and tribunals, of a chamber of commerce, and of a board of trade arbitration.

"Madame de Cadignan went to Alencon to save Monsieur d'Esgrignon from a trial before the court of assizes; and this is how he rewards her to-day!"

During the Victorian era the tunnels were used to ferry prisoners between the Police Station at 'Lock-up Yard' and the Courts of Assizes, held at the Guildhall.

Bourg is the seat of a prefect and of a court of assizes, and has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal and a chamber of commerce, and a branch of the Bank of France.

The Paris court of assizes on June 1 condemned Illich Rámirez-Sánchez, alias "Carlos the Jackal", to life imprisonment for the murder of two counterespionage officers from the DST (Direction de la surveillance du territoire) and the attempted murder of a third.