0 (in Wales and England until 1971) one or more of the meetings of the most important court in each county, usually held four times a year by a travelling judge -- （1971年前英格兰和威尔士的）巡回审判（庭）
While the leading landowners of the county continued to play a part at the assizes, they were conspicuous by their absence from the sessions juries.
At the moment, inquiries can be made by those sentencing in special cases, when they are assizes or quarter sessions cases.
The case is tried not even at quarter sessions, but at the assizes, with the full panoply of an assize trial.
In the provinces, petitions were published from the pulpit and at the public meetings of quarter sessions and assizes.
In this way, much of the preparatory work regarding projects such as road and bridge building was completed out of court, and the actual meetings at assizes were largely formalities.
Constitutional debates were only rarely conducted outside the assizes of the drafting groups, and in most cases the finished product, while often the subject of intense public discussion, remained unaltered.
What becomes of the civil case if the assizes are not held?
A copy was made to be presented at the next assizes for inclusion in the court records.
