Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyers
Literary usage of Oyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... and oyers. If the deft, pleads a fact as appearing on the record ; as the
appearance of a party in court &c., as appears by the record, and this he is ..."
2. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"94) had hardly anything in their shops but geese, and, therefore, when they were
united in a company, they received the name of oyers, ..."
3. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1878)
"Ye oyers," or the general public, were not, however, if we may judge from the
number of such prosecutions by Mr. Simpson, the zealous Procurator-Fiscal of ..."
4. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"2 Edward III. c. 2. Who «hall be Justices of Assise and Gaol Deliver}-. To u horn
oyers and Terminer« ..."
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