Usually means: Historical courts for serious cases.
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  1. assizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. assizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assizes, assizes: Wordnik
  5. assizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assizes: Wiktionary
  7. assizes: Dictionary.com
  8. Assizes (England and Wales), Assizes (Ireland), Assizes (disambiguation), Assizes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. assizes: Rhymezone
  10. assizes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. assizes: FreeDictionary.org
  12. assizes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. assizes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. assizes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. assizes: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (historical) The regional courts of England and Wales, which were replaced by the Crown Courts in 1971.
▸ noun:  A trial or hearing before such a court.

Similar:
court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius, custos rotulorum, Old Bailey, court hand, English law, England, English and Welsh law, thing, England and Wales, more...

Opposite:
dissizes, disorderly court, informal court

Types:
criminal, civil, nisi prius, appellate, superior, more...

Phrases:
Bloody Assizes, more...

Adjectives:
next, last, possessory, same, bloody, petty, local, late, criminal, grand, black



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Similar:
court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius, custos rotulorum, Old Bailey, court hand, English law, England, English and Welsh law, thing, England and Wales, more...

Opposite:
dissizes, disorderly court, informal court

Types:
criminal, civil, nisi prius, appellate, superior, more...

Phrases:
Bloody Assizes, more...

Adjectives:
next, last, possessory, same, bloody, petty, local, late, criminal, grand, black



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