Assize Court

Assizes (from the Latin sessio ) is a constitutional term of the Middle Ages originally for ceremonial gatherings and meetings in which the legal issues were settled, but also the results of such meetings (laws, regulations, penalties ). Later, so in English and then in French law refers to the 19th century juries. As the " assizes " trial by jury with lay judges in France, Belgium ( Cour d' Assisses or Hof van Assizes ) and Italy ( Corte d' Assise ) are still known.

Conversion of the term

After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 Godfrey of Bouillon left the statutes for its design courts ( the High Court and the District Court ) in formal sessions and is therefore called the corresponding official document Assisses de Jerusaleme. Even the authorizations granted by the Assis meetings taxes called Assisa, and awarded by courts Assis penalties were called Assisses. With the French Normans naming emigrated to England and called the quarterly court sessions, which were holding traveling around the 12 judges in the counties of England, where it was trial by jury, which had to decide all civil and criminal cases. From England the name assizes for trial by jury returned to France as Saint Louis stipulated that at certain times the public court sessions should be held to discuss complaints by the vassals or subjects about their officials as well as the appeals against lower court locations. This Assis courts dealt with both civil and criminal cases, and fell into so-called grandes or petites assises. From the Institute of Assizes, the jury system had formed which were set up in all French departments since the French Revolution. Even after the defeat of Napoleon and the reorganization of the borders remained in the former French possessions left bank of the Assis courts exist.

Legislation

Known processes

  • Assis process in May 1849 in Dusseldorf against Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Assis process to Landau in 1833 against the speaker of the Hambach Festival
Henry II of England
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