For Assizes we have a term and definition in Charles Dickens.

Assizes (Charles Dickens)

Sessions held twice a year in areas outside London where law cases too serious to be tried by local justice were presided over by circuit-riding London judges. The assizes usually commenced with great ceremony.

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