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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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