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assizes

US // (əˈsaɪzɪz) //

巡回审判,巡回拍卖会,巡回审判会,巡回法庭

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  1. 1
    • : the sessions, usually held four times a year, of the principal court in each county, exercising civil and criminal jurisdiction, attended by itinerant judges: replaced in 1971 by crown courts

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Examples

  • The writer having carried the surveying chain, was present at the trial at the Bodmin assizes in 1829.

  • It was necessary, however, that he should see her, when he came to Hertford at the spring assizes of 1699.

  • On February 12, 1768, he was committed for trial at the spring assizes at Kingston, and acquitted in the following March.

  • At the Winter Assizes 86 persons were tried for unlawful assembly, riot and conspiracy in connection with cattle-driving.

  • And as to Galway, we may gather the state of affairs from the report of a case tried at the Winter Assizes of 1912.