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Issuable terms

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the former practice of the English courts, Hilary term and Trinity term were called "issuable terms," because the issues to be tried at the assizes were made up at those terms.

3 Bl. Comm. 353.

But the distinction is superseded by the provisions of the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875.