Definition of Courts Of Assize And Nisi Prius

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Courts of assize and nisi prius
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Same as Court of nisi prius.

  • Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Courts in England composed of two or more commissioners, called "judges of assize," (or of "assize and nisi prius") who are twice in every year sent by the king's special commission, on circuits all round the kingdom, to try, by a jury of the respective counties, the truth of such matters of fact as are there under dispute in the courts of Westminster Hall. 3 Steph. Comm. 421, 422 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 57.