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- noun Plural form of
assizer .
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Ye see a judge has his assizers that sit in judgment with him, and consent to his sentence; so this great
The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch
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Judge has his assizers, for there is not one of his angels shall be left in heaven, but all shall stand about this throne, and all the saints on earth shall be caught up in the air, and they shall all have thrones set about his throne.
The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch
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The foreman, called in Scotland the chancellor of the jury, usually the man of best rank and estimation among the assizers, stepped forward, and with a low reverence, delivered to the
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ARESKINE, I.P.D. The Lords continue the diet at the instance of his Majesties Advocate, against the said two panels, till to-morrow at seven o'clock in the morning, and witnesses and assizers then to attend, each under the pain of law, and the panels to be carried back to prison.
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801
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Then the assizers were called in by fives and sworn, against whom he objected nothing; but protested, "That none might sit on his assize, that professed Protestant or Presbyterian principles, or an adherence to the covenanted work of reformation [238]."
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