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Terminer  n.  (Law) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.






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"Terminer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the records show, no action was taken until the trial began in Oyer and Terminer. The date of that beginning cannot be fixed precisely—there being no date attached to the True Bill found against Bileth, Prickett, Wilson, Motter, Bond, and Sims. (For some unknown reason Mathews and Clemens were not included in the indictment; ...
— Henry Hudson - A Brief Statement Of His Aims And His Achievements • Thomas A. Janvier

... 1814 by order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, being on this day convicted of wilful murder of Marie Anne Dussault, and on 9th of May, 1814, by further order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, being on this day attained, sentenced to be ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine



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