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Assizes

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Word	Definition
court of assize and nisi priusnoun	the county courts of england (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)
court of assizenoun	the county courts of england (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)

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Word	Definition
court of assizenoun	the county courts of england (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)
court of assize and nisi priusnoun	the county courts of england (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)
foundationnoun	That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
basenoun	Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
criminalnoun	A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
assisesnoun	(geology, stratigraphy) Two or more beds or strata of rock united by the occurrence of fossils of the same characteristic species or genera.
crimes	the fourth studio album by the American band The Blood Brothers, released on October 12, 2004, by V2 Records.
foundationsnoun	That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
custos rotulorumnoun	The chief magistrate and representative of the Governor-General in a Jamaican parish.
old baileynoun	The Central Criminal Court in this street; the Crown Court in the City of London.
court handnoun	(historical) A modification of the Norman handwriting, as distinguished from the modern or Italian handwriting, in use in the English law-courts from the 16th century until the reign of George II.
english lawnoun	The common law legal system of England and Wales, supplemented in Wales by Welsh law.
englandnoun	The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
english and welsh lawnoun	(UK, law) Synonym of English law (“common law legal system of England and Wales”).
thingnoun	That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
england and walesnoun	(UK, law) The jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two constituent countries of the United Kingdom, which share a single legal system and are treated as a single country for various purposes.
libertynoun	The condition of being free.
escheaterynoun	(England and Wales law, historical and rare) The medieval English governmental office that recorded escheated property.
wapentakenoun	An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
wittenagemotnoun	Alternative form of witenagemot (“Anglo-Saxon assembly”). [(history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.]