maiden assize

Hist. 1.An assize in which no prisoner is sentenced to death. 2. An assize in which the sheriff presents the judges with white gloves because there are no prisoners to try.

• This practice stemmed from a custom in which a prisoner who was convicted of murder but pardoned by the Crown presented gloves to the judges as a fee.

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