Judges on assize were satisfied with simply recording a sentence of death against offenders whom they did not think deserved the extreme penalty.
The villain fails in his assize and there has been no manumission, still it seems admitted that in this case the villain has acquired liberum tenementum by the lord's act.
The tenant is ejected however, and brings an assizeof mort d'ancestor against Beatrice of Montacute, who, as holding in dower, vouches her son John to warranty.
He can give away[81] or otherwise alienate land or chattels, he has the assize of novel disseisin to defend the land, and leaves the assize of mort d'ancestor to his heirs.
The plaintiff replies that he was enfranchised by being suffered to plead in an assize of mort d'ancestor against B.
It is an assize of novel disseisin brought by a certain William the son of Henry against his lord Bartholomew the son of Eustace.
The verdict of a jury was not sufficient to settle the question[123], and a man who had been refused an assize in consequence of the defendant pleading villainage in bar had the right notwithstanding such decision to sue for his liberty.
It was understood that the boy was to be buried at Headford, on Saturday, the 3rd; but, nevertheless, the father was in the assize town on the Friday.
The High Sheriff (Mr. Angerstein) was fined 50 by the Judge of Assize at Norwich.
Norwich Theatre was opened for the Assize week, under the management of Messrs.
According to the assize acts, a sack of flour weighing 280 lbs.
An Assize Judge= takes precedence over the high sheriff as the assizejudge represents the Sovereign of the Realm.
I have only visited the town twice, during an Assize week.
The landlord readily showed him the register for the Assize week.
See that wretch,” said the warden Pinet to me, “he is one of the two condemned to death by the court of assize of the Seine!
The second and third stories were occupied by those sentenced by the court of assize of the Seine.
The acts of his reign provided for the defence of the country on the analogy of the English Assize of Arms.
But there is an assize of William the Lion, which is quite definite as to the meaning of the word.
Quernmore and the natives of Lonsdale, being their portion of a fine of £1,000 incurred for their trespass against the assize of the forest.
Pierre had never before visited the Assize Court, and its appearance surprised him.
And afterwards there had been the assize court, the judges, the gendarmes, the witnesses, the whole of France arrayed against one man and bent on making him pay for the universal crime.
Then an idea of destroying the Palace of Justice, particularly the assize court, had occurred to him.
Extracts from the Assize rolls recording the proceedings of the special commission will soon be published by the Royal Historical Society.
Common Pleas in later phrase) are classified as Rotuli Curiæ Regis, while the rolls of the local eyres for the same period are calledAssize Rolls.
Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, sæc.
Footnote 124: Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, p.
Footnote 108: Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, sæc.
Footnote 22: Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, p.
In the Midland counties, where superstition had flourished in the days of James I, there were now occasional tales of possession and vague charges which rarely reached the ears of the assize judges.
From the rapidity with which they were carried to completion we may feel fairly certain that the justices of the peace, seeing no probability of assize sessions in the near future, went ahead to try cases on their own initiative.
A witch chase, which during the Civil Wars would have led to a tragedy, was cut short, probably through the agency of a privy council less fearful of popular sentiment than the assize judges.
Published and set forth by commandement of his Majesties Justices of Assize in the North Parts.
The regular assize courts had nothing to do with the matter.
While the government was busy putting down the conjurers, the aroused popular sentiment was compelling the justices of the peace and then the assize judges to hang the witches.
Or did the assize courts, which resumed their proceedings in the summer of 1646, frown upon him?
That policy appeared too in the lessening rigor of the assize judges.
The mother and father were apparently not sent to the assize court.
In the regular assize courts, Joan Cason would probably have been sentenced to four public appearances in the pillory.
Privy Council orders the Bishop of Bangor and the assize judges to look into it.
A large percentage of the cases that went against the accused were in towns judicially independent of the assize courts.
The Discovery of Witches: in answer to severall Queries, lately Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk.
To be sure, this was done by the justices of the peace and we do not know how much it influenced the assize court.
From the judicial organization of the realm, he turned to its military organization, and in 1181 anAssize of Arms restored the national fyrd or militia to the place which it had lost at the Conquest.
The fabric of our judicial legislation commences in 1166 with the Assize of Clarendon, the first object of which was to provide for the order of the realm by reviving the old English system of mutual security or frankpledge.
In the provisions of this assizefor the repression of crime we find the origin of trial by jury, so often attributed to earlier times.
With this assize too a practice which had prevailed from the earliest English times, the practice of "compurgation," passed away.
The allusion is, clearly, to the assize of arms; but was that assize based on fixed quantities of land?
The evidence you gave in the Assize Court against the man Lefranc showed them that you entertained suspicion of who killed the jeweller, Josse Vanderelst, in the Avenue Louise.
Appeal was made, therefore; but the appeal court upheld the judgment of the assize court.
Cloth, Assize of, beginning of a national control of industry, 201.
The Assizeof Ale as recorded on the Statute Rolls in the time of Henry III.
Then a court of assize was held and indictments served on the remaining rebels, two of whom also gave in.
Down a fertile valley it makes its way towards Welshpool, practically the capital of the shire, for it is almost double the size of Montgomery, and is the assize town.
