COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER


Meaning of COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER in English

: a commission authorizing an English judge (as a High Court judge on circuit) to hear and determine at the assizes all indicted cases of treason, felony, or misdemeanor committed in the county — called also writ of oyer and terminer

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