Assize Courts

The assize courts were continued for only seven years.

The area also had a separate existence as a judicial county following the establishment of assize courts in 1838.

At the western end of the castle is an ivy clad building built in 1826 as the Assize courts.

There was a need for assize courts in the city and a competition to design these was also won by Elmes.

It was used by judges when they attended the sessions of the Assize Courts which were held four times each year in York.

Whether or not the assize courts, whose task was to judge severe crimes, were to operate with a jury was a topic of considerable controversy.

The king expanded the jurisdiction of the assize courts when abolished the exemptions he or his predecessors had granted to several bodies corporate and individuals.

Liber Assisarum may refer to a number of books which relate to judgements of the assize courts:

The traditional county of Tipperary was split into two judicial counties (or ridings) following the establishment of assize courts in 1838.

For procedural issues, appeals to the Supreme Court are still possible since assize courts, which operate by jury trial, would not be competent to hear them.

Each shire was responsible for gathering taxes for the central government; for local defence; and for justice, through assize courts.

Assize courts were held in Abingdon from 1570 but in the 17th century it was vying with Reading for County Town status.

This division dates back to the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, with the county's two "ridings" having had separate assize courts for much longer.

In place of assize courts of England, there were Courts of Great Sessions.

In other cases the Dáil Courts proved more popular because of the speed and efficiency of their functioning, compared to the local Assize courts.

Richard Amerike married a woman by the name of Lucy Wells, living for a time at West Camel, near Ilchester, where the local assize courts were held.

The more brutal the 'Tans' the more they alienated the local populace from the Dublin Castle administration and Assize courts and the greater success the republican alternatives had.

In 1806 the building was bought out of county rates for use as the Judges' residence, when they attended the quarterly sessions at the Assize Courts at York Castle.

While they were administratively distinct counties, with their own sheriffs and lieutenancies, most of the counties corporate remained part of the "county at large" for purposes such as the county assize courts.

He was the son of a judge of the assize courts who raised a great hue and cry, but all to no avail, the capture had been so nicely planned no one knew a thing about it.

They took their spoils to a window embrasure in the great hall, where Javan and Tavis had been wont to sit and eavesdrop on the regents as they supervised Alroy's hearings of the assize courts.

Humans were dealt with through the regular assize courts, tried where they were arrested and receiving ordinary punishments befitting vandalism, occasional assault, and general disorderly behavior-usually no more than a figurative slap on the hand for those of noble blood.

The O'Sheas and Whelan went on to work with Woolner and the architect Alfred Waterhouse in the design of the Manchester assize courts, producing a series of capitals depicting gruesome forms of punishment in history.

The Napoleonic Code of Criminal Instruction, adopted in France in 1808 and inspiring many similar codes in civil law countries, made it compulsory that the defendant should have a lawyer when tried in the assize courts (which judged severe crimes).

The Court of King's Bench did act as an appellate body, hearing appeals from the Court of Common Pleas, eyre circuits, assize courts and local courts, but was not a court of last resort; its own records were sent to Parliament to be signed off on.