Assize Court
A
court in
England and Wales, originally held in every
county by special commission to one of the
judges, who is called a "Justice of the Assize", and empowered to take assizes, that is, the verdict of a
jury, called the assize.
The assize courts gradually became established as permanent institutions in particular towns. In England and Wales they were abolished in 1971 — 1972.
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