A court which formerly sat at intervals in each county of england and wales to administer the civil and criminal law. in 1972 the civil jurisdiction of assizes was transferred to the high court, and the criminal jurisdiction to the crown court.
Usage examples:
In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter session…
Of or relating to a group of bovids of which the genus tragelaphus is typical, especially the subfamily tragelaphinae or (in later use) the tribe tragelaphini, which comprise chiefly large african antelopes of the genera tragelaphus and taurotragus (elands).