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Definition of Assizers
1. assizer [n] - See also: assizer
Literary usage of Assizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Miscellany of the New Spalding Club by Alexander Macdonald Munro, David Littlejohn, Alexander Emslie Smith (1908)
"... Durward Baker in Aberdeen having all & each of them failled to appear this
day in terms of the citation given them to pass as assizers for stricking the ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"Nor is it unworthy of remark, that when such of the assizers as were present at
the council declared the earl innocent of the perjury (which his majesty's ..."
3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"The laird of Drum, another of the assizers, presently replied, " Yes, my lord,
... Whereupon the whole assizers rose up and assented to u hat those said. ..."
4. History of Trial by Jury by William Forsyth, Appleton Morgan (1852)
"The laird of Drum. another of the assizers, presently replied, " Yes, mj lord,
... Whereupon the whole assizers rose up, and assented to what those ..."
5. The Life of William, Lord Russell: With Some Account of the Times in which by Earl John Russell Russell (1820)
"The laird of Drum, another of the assizers, presently replied, ' Yes, my Lord,
... Whereupon the whole assizers rose up, and assented to what those said ..."
6. A Course of Lectures on the Government, Constitution, and Laws of Scotland by Alexander Robertson (1878)
"138 (1436); where there was wilful or ignorant error by assizers, complaint was
to be made to the king and his council, the error reduced, ..."
7. The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1852)
"The Laird of Drum, another of the assizers, presently replied, " Yes, my lord,
... Whereupon the whole assizers rose up; and assented to what those said. ..."
8. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the by Robert Wodrow (1836)
"The laird of Drum, another of the assizers, presently replied, Yes, my lord, ...
Whereupon the whole assizers rose up and assented to what those said. ..."
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