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noun - a type of legal writ
OYER - In English law, Oyer and terminer (; a partial translation of the Anglo-French oyer et terminer which literally means "to hear and to determine") was...
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| A hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document. |
| In English law, bOyerb and terminer ( nd trmn a partial translation of the Anglo-French boyerb et terminer which literally means "to hear and determine") was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat. The commission was also known as audiendo et terminando. |
| A commission issued to judges on a circuit to hold courts. |
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In English law, Oyer and terminer (; a partial translation of the Anglo-French oyer et terminer which literally means "to hear and to determine") was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat. The commission was also known by the Law Latin name audiendo et terminando, and the Old English-derived term soc and sac. * By the commission of oyer and terminer the commissioners (in practice the judges of assize, though other persons were named with them in the commission) were commanded to make diligent inquiry into all treasons, felonies and misdemeanours whatever committed in the counties specified in the commission, and to hear and determine the same according to law. The inquiry was by means of the grand jury; after the grand jury had found the bills of indictment submitted to it, the commissioners proceeded to hear and determine by means of the petit jury. The words oyer and terminer were also used to denote the court which had jurisdiction to try offenc |