Justices of Assize
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justices of assize · commissioners of assize · justices in eyre · justices itinerant
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The royal justices who rode circuit to hold assizes and deliver gaols, discussed at length regarding their commissions and eventual institutional decline.
“As the power of justices of assizes by many Acts of Parliament and other commissions increased, so these justices itinerant by little and little vanished away.
79) suggests, however, that a separate commission was not needed, as “all justices of assize and gaol delivery were in the commission of the peace within the precincts of the court.
On whole subject see Stubbs, Sel. Chart., 141–3; Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, I. 79–111; Holdsworth, I. 116–123. Contrast, however, Turner, op. cit., III. 76 ff.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Circuit judges commanded to prevent any molestation of the King's subjects in their lawful recreations.
and we further command all Justices of Assize in their several circuits to see that no man do trouble or molest any of our loyal and dutiful people, in or for their lawful recreations, having first done their duty to God, and continuing in obedience to us and our laws:
The Genius of the Common Law
Royal judicial officers who carried the king's justice around the country and superseded the older justices in eyre.
and in the course of the fourteenth century the cumbrous machinery of the eyre was wholly superseded by the more convenient jurisdiction of the justices of assize.