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Maiden Assize

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English practice. An assize at which no capital conviction takes place. In such a case, the sheriff of the county presents the judges with white gloves. Wharton's Lex,