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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A way, journey; the journey of a justice about his circuit; V. Assize. The Justices in eyre were estabhshed in 1176 with a delegated power from the aula regia, and made their circuit around the kingdom once in seven years for the purpose of trying various causes; they were superseded by the justices of Assize and Nisi prius. Ez arts,/r. At arts, of arts.
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