Admiralty Court, but only under the Common Law of England by a Commission of Oyer and Terminer under the great seal.
In the latter part of 1677 a standing commission of Oyer and Terminer for the trial of pirates in Jamaica was prepared by the attorney-general and sent to the colony.
Besides which, there is a Court of Oyer andTerminer and Jail Delivery, held eight times a year at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, for the trial of criminals.
The decision of the Oyer and Terminer must be carried out unless the Governor interferes.
The court of oyer and terminer consists of all the judges except the chancellor.
The Tower garrison was augmented and the city’s chains removed, in view of a recurrence of danger, whilst a commission of Oyer and Terminer was issued for the punishment of those implicated in the late riot.
The test came in December, 1718, when the court of oyer and terminer was about to begin its session.
For that reason I refuse to sit in the court of oyer and terminer with those gentlemen.
Northy advised, however, that Governors be instructed not to hold courts of oyer and terminer except in cases of "extraordinary emergency.
This is shown by the bitterness with which they resisted when Governor Spotswood tried to weaken it by setting up a court of oyer and terminer with others than Councillors on the bench.
Realizing that he had brought down on himself the hostility of the Councillors, Spotswood now tried to undermine their power by setting up courts of oyer and terminer to which he appointed persons other than themselves.
A court of oyer and terminer was immediately instituted by ordinance, and the positive, overbearing Stoughton was appointed by the governor and council as its chief judge, with Sewall and Wait Winthrop, two feebler men, as his associates.
The fatal day came at last, and Charles was arraigned before the court of oyer and terminer on charge of the murder of one Samuel Williams.
The more serious offences are reserved for the judges of the superior courts sitting under a commission of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery for each county.
The Divels Delusions or A faithfull relation of John Palmer and Elizabeth Knott two notorious Witches lately condemned at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer in St. Albans .
A Full and True Account of the Proceedings at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer .
It is true too that Parliament had sent down a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to Bury, a commission made up of a serjeant and two clergymen.
Commission of Oyer and Terminer was granted for the trial of these Witches.
The following are the names in the Commission of the Peace and of Oyer and Terminer for the county of Worcester, dated December 5th, 1st Richard III, as they occur on the patent rolls of that year: J.
Mr. Russel asked, whether the Court of Oyer andTerminer should sit, expressing some fear of inconvenience by its fall.
Mr. Torrey seems to be of opinion, that the Court of Oyer andTerminer should go on, regulating any thing that may have been amiss, when certainly found to be so.
The season, and manner of doing it, is such, that the Court of Oyer and Terminer count themselves thereby dismissed.
As the oyer and terminer in Suffolk is to be on Monday next, desires them to get Sir John Sypton indicted for forging the false acquittance, and Bury his advocate also.
Had purposed to have been at the oyer and terminer this time, but cannot, &c.
Citty Hall of New Yorke in America, A speciall Court of Oyer and Terminer was holden by Vertue of this following Commission, Viz.
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