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Below it were the county courts.8 They had the same power in civil and criminal causes as the courts of assistants, but “tryalls for life, lims or banishment” were “wholly reserved unto the courts of Assistants.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Below it were the county courts.8 They had the same power in civil and criminal causes as the courts of assistants, but “tryalls for life, lims or banishment” were “wholly reserved unto the courts of Assistants.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Below it were the county courts.8 They had the same power in civil and criminal causes as the courts of assistants, but “tryalls for life, lims or banishment” were “wholly reserved unto the courts of Assistants.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Next I will proceed to give some short account of tryalls on our Laws which is thus.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Marchants, I chanced to arriue in New-England, a parte of Ameryca, at the Ile of Monahiggan, in 43-1/2 of northerly latitude: our plot was there to take Whales and make tryalls of a Myne of Gold and Copper.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after many tryalls bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, for to line her new study, which is very pretty.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among others one (which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in my now taking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for them) a woman that went and was indicted by four names for entering herself a cookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after 3 days run away with a silver tankard,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after many tryalls bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, for to line her new study, which is very pretty.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
alexz commented on the word tryalls
an archaic term for trials?
March 28, 2018