- law,
oyer and terminer (/ˈɔɪ.ər ... ˈtɜːrmɪnər/; a
partial translation of the Anglo-French
oyer et
terminer,
which literally means 'to hear
and to determine')...
-
trials for this
capital crime were
conducted by a
Court of
Oyer and Terminer in 1692
and by a
Superior Court of
Judicature in 1693, both held in Salem...
- Trials, a
series of
hearings and prosecutions of
people accused of
witchcraft in
colonial M****achusetts
between March 1692
and May 1693. The
trials resulted...
-
travelled across the
seven circuits of
England and Wales on
commissions of "
oyer and terminer",
setting up
court and summoning juries at the
various ****ize towns...
- was a
Royalist and was
appointed by
Oliver Cromwell to a
special commission of
oyer and terminer.
Zouch wrote extensive legal texts and was
among the earliest...
-
arrested on
charges of
witchcraft and were
being held in
Boston and Salem prisons. On May 27, a
special Court of
Oyer and Terminer was
created to hear the ac****ulated...
- a
magistrate and leading figure in the
colony at the time of the
Salem witch trials, but did not sit on the
Court of
Oyer and Terminer.
Despite this...
- Trials,
first as the
chief justice of the
Special Court of
Oyer and Terminer in 1692,
and then as the
chief justice of the
Superior Court of Judicature...
-
and refused to
plead (guilty or not guilty), was
imprisoned and arraigned at the
September sitting of the court. The
records of the
Court of
Oyer and...
- did not make it
known to the Magistrates. In May 1692, a
Court of
Oyer and Terminer was
established to try
these cases. However, the
court faced the problem...
