assize in a sentence
Examples
- In 1166 Henry II of England transformed English law by passing the Assize of Clarendon act.
- And none of them shall keep more arms than he ought to have by this assize.
- Assize of Woodstock ) in 1184:
- Parish and assize records have disappeared.
- Green bound him over to the next assize, when Judge Hutton gave him his discharge.
- The Court of Assize was the highest tribunal, subordinate only to the Governor and Duke.
- On 20 June 2001 a new trial opened before the Assize Court of the minor Marne.
- Strangeways was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1868 alongside the now destroyed Manchester Assize Courts.
- The assize is believed to have been passed at a council held in Northampton in January 1176.
- However the court made no judgement on whether the right dated back to the Assize of Arms.