local assizes

Nevertheless, he regularly appeared in the quarterly local assizes to pay heavy fines for recusancy.

The cases have piled up in the local assizes; not surprising, since I was obliged to remain on the far side of the Alps last winter.

They ran baronial courts, acted as sheriffs-depute, sat on local assizes and were called in as private arbitrators.

The magistrate at the local assizes in Flintshire, J. Williams, found for the defendant, voiding the contract.

Harlech had not apparently been repaired following the 1468 siege, and had become completely dilapidated, with the exception of the gatehouse, which was used for the local assizes.

They were taken before the "local assizes" of the Government Commissioners for Wigtownshire, (session record of the Parish of Penninghame, Wigtownshire).

In that case, the plaintiff told the defendant (while putting his hand on his sword) that he would not stab him, because the circuit judge was visiting town for the local assizes.

Given that travel to London was an onerous burden during the medieval period, however, the Statute of Westminster II provided in 1285 for trial of fact in civil cases at the local assizes.

Horner was convicted at the local assizes, and was, as the slang of the time so cruelly and so casually had it, turned off, but the judge took pity on Essie, because of her age or her chestnut hair, and he sentenced her to seven years' transportation.