310 examples of assize in sentences

And he has done it by a dry-plate, quick-shutter process in a manner that surely lays him liable for criminal libel in the assize of high society.

I say society's assize advisedly, because it is only in society that the Disagreeable Girl can play a prominent part, assuming the center of the stage.

Jews were robbed and banished; the bishopric of Lincoln was added to the half-dozen sees already vacant, and its treasure swept into the royal Hoard; an "aid" was raised for the marriage of his daughter, and a terrible list of fines levied under the Assize of Clarendon.

In the Assize of Northampton, held in January 1176, the king confirmed and perfected the judicial legislation which he had begun ten years before in the Assize of Clarendon.

In the Assize of Northampton, held in January 1176, the king confirmed and perfected the judicial legislation which he had begun ten years before in the Assize of Clarendon.

Religious churchmen looked on with helpless irritation at Henry's first formal victory over the principles of Thomas; in the view of his own day he had "renewed the Assize of Clarendon, and ordered to be observed the execrable decrees for which the blessed martyr Thomas had borne exile for seven years, and been crowned with the crown of martyrdom.

In the years that followed the Assize of Northampton Henry was at the height of his power.

To sketch the history of the art, and to examine its principles critically, now remains as a duty for the connoisseur, and for judges of quite another stamp from his Majesty's Judges of Assize.

There are the new Assize Courtsthe foundation-stone of which was laid by the Queen in 1887; they are built of brick and terra-cotta, redundant with detailed ornament, some of it perhaps of a too florid character.

The left hand bastion contains the millhouse, stable, and a room for the van which takes the prisoners to the town hall in the assize time; over these three rooms are the mill chamber and hay-loft.

The lodging occupied by Judge Jeffreys during the Monmouth Rebellion trials or "Bloody Assize" (1685), when seventy-four were sentenced to death on Gallows Hill of dreadful memory, and 175 to transportation to carry westward with them the bitter seeds that bore glorious fruit a century later, was in a house still standing nearly opposite the museum.

In 1181, the Assize of Arms, which revived the ancient Saxon "Fyrd," the word for what we now call militia; and, twenty years before that, "scutage" replaced military service.

The first general example of an English law fixing the price of a commodity is in 1266, the Assize of Bread and Beer.

Nine years before this statute is the Assize of Bread and Beer, attempting to fix the price of bread according to the cost of wheat, but notable to us as containing both the first pure-food statute and the first statute against "forestalling.

The Statute of Bakers, or Assize of Bread and Ale, is by some assigned to the 13th of Edward I.

The first statute against forestalling merely inflicts a punishment on forestallers and dates ten years later, 1285, though the time of this, the Statute concerning Bakers, is put by some still earlier, with the Assize of Bread and Beer, in 1266.

Ale (see also Sumptuary Legislation), Assize of.

Arms (see Assize of Arms), chapter relating to, chapter XIII. right to bear; does not extend to Parliament; history of; made compulsory; right to bear established in bill of rights; does not include concealed weapons.

Assize of Arms.

Assize of Bread and Beer.

" Bakers, statute of (see Assize of Bread and Ale).

Beer (see Sumptuary Legislation, Assize of Beer).

Pure-food laws, first example of in Assize of Bread and Beer A.D. 1266; applying to grain, meat, fish; selling unwholesome meat severely punishable in early England; American laws; history of; in States; matters to which they apply; effect of; history of; the Federal act; Pure food and drug laws, their criminal side.

Victuals, statute of (see Assize of Bread).

Jeffreys' lodgings have been demolished, perhaps under the impression that nothing was needed to keep alive the memory of the "Bloody Assize."

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