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The laws and statutes in force were contained in a volume called “The Assizes of Jerusalem,” the “Livres des Assises et Bons Coutumes,” a splendid memorial of painstaking wisdom and anxious thought.
If he is a poor man, the expense of conducting the Assizes with proper dignity is considerable.
Some years ago the High Sheriff of Surrey published a placard at the Guildford Assizes setting forth that the public were excluded from the court by the Judge's order and in defiance of law, and warning his subordinate officers against giving effect to the order for exclusion.
If the High Sheriff has a friend or kinsman in Holy Orders, the Assizes afford an excellent opportunity of bringing him to public notice in the capacity of Sheriff's Chaplain; for the Chaplain preaches before the Judges at the opening of the Assize, and, if he is ambitious of fame, he can generally contrive to make something of the occasion.
But few Chaplains, I should think, have emulated the courage of Sydney Smith, who at the York Assizes in 1824 rebuked the besetting sins of Bench and Bar in two remarkably vigorous sermons on these suggestive themes-"The Judge that smites contrary to the Law" and "The Lawyer that tempted Christ.
At the Council of Northampton provision was also made for holding assizes in the different counties of England.
1841 15,914,148 27,760 174•6 per 100,000 1851 17,927,609 27,960 156•2 " " 1861 20,066,224 18,326 91•3 " " 1871 22,712,266 16,269 71•6 " " 1881 25,974,239 14,704 56•6 " " 1891 29,002,525 11,605 40•0 " " Such is the remarkable result obtained by taking the whole number of indictable offences sent for trial at Assizes and Quarter Sessions in each Census-year since 1834, nor is there any reason to suppose that the process of amelioration has slackened to any appreciable extent during the last decade.
In the quinquennial period (1857-1861), the number of persons for trial at Assizes and Quarter Sessions, charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, felonious wounding, malicious wounding and assault, amounted to 1451; whilst in the next quinquennial period (1862-1867), the number of commitments for these offences had risen to 1712; and herein lay the [341]raison d'etre for the widespread alarm which, in 1862 and 1863 especially, may be said to have amounted to panic.
Tales of the bench and assizes and annals of the bluecoat school.
THE CRIER: (Loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable.
The "Notice to Proprietors" was seized by the magistrates of Besancon, and Proudhon was summoned to appear before the assizes of Doubs within a week.
Afterwards taken back to Paris, to appear before the assizes of the Seine in reference to an article in "La Voix du Peuple," he was defended by M.
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