(UK, legal, historical) The southeastern circuit of assize, including the Home Counties (except Middlesex) and Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
(UK, legal, historical) The southeastern circuit of assize, including the Home Counties (except Middlesex) and Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, dated) A field adjacent to its owner's home.
(legal, US) discriminated against by a local judge.
A dated British term for a field immediately adjacent to the owner's dwelling, often used as kitchen garden or close pastureland. The word has a quiet, pastoral register placing it firmly in an older rural England context. Seldom used in contemporary speech; most likely to appear in historical, agricultural, or literary discussions.
(UK) any of the historic divisions of Great Britain no longer used for administrative purposes in favour of ceremonial counties and administrative counties.
A US legal term for a county court held four times per year, common in the 18th and 19th centuries as the primary forum for local civil and criminal matters. The quarterly sessions gave communities regular access to judicial proceedings. Now largely historical as court structures have changed, but still referenced in legal history.