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oyer and terminer Law.|ˈɔɪər ənd ˈtɜːmɪnə(r)|
[The Anglo-Fr. phr. oyer et terminer ‘to hear and determine’ partly anglicized: cf. oyer.]
a. In Anglo-Fr. used in proper verbal construction, and also, in commission d'oir et de terminer, as a n. phrase = ‘hearing and determining’ (cf. -er4).
b. In English chiefly in the latter construction, as in commission of oyer and terminer († of oyer and determiner, of oyer determiner, = AFr. de terminer), a commission formerly directed to the King's Judges, Serjeants, and other persons of note, empowering them to hear and determine indictments on specified offences, such as treasons, felonies, etc., special commissions being granted on occasions of extraordinary disturbance such as insurrections: also called writ of oyer and terminer. Now, the most comprehensive of the commissions granted to judges on circuit, directing them to hold courts for the trial of offences. Hence in such phrases as commissioners or justices of (or † in) o. & t., writ, court of o. & t.; and
†c. elliptically, for ‘commission or court of oyer and terminer’.
a. [1278Rolls of Parlt. I. 3/2 Furent assignes Justices, de enquere, oyer, e terminer selum la leye e la custume. 1292Britton i. i. §1 Pur ceo qe nous ne suffisums mie en nostre propre persone a oyer et terminer totes les quereles del poeple. Ibid. §3 Estre ceo volums nous, qe Iustices errauntz soint assignetz de mesmes les chapitres oyer et terminer en chescun counté et en chescune fraunchise de vii aunz en vii. aunz. 1314–15Rolls of Parlt. I. 290/1 Il forge trespas vers luy..et purchace Commissions d'oir & de terminer as gentz favorables a li.]
b.1414Rolls of Parlt. IV. 58/1 A Commission of Oyer and termyner, after the fourme of a Statut mad. 1433Ibid. 458/1 Upon which Riot aforsaid, was graunted..writtes of Oyer and Termyner. 1455Ibid. V. 332/2 Tyll your Commission of Oier and Determyner be direct to endifferent Commissioners. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1389/1 In the place where the court commonlie called the Kings bench is vsuallie kept by vertue of hir maiesties commission of oier and terminer. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. i. (1810) 16 The Lo. President and Councell shall have Commission, power, and authoritie..of Oyer, Determiner, and Goale deliverie. 1644[H. Parker] Jus Pop. 5 When discords arose..they might have been qualified and repressed by a friendly association, and either one or both might have had the oyer and terminer thereof. 1681Trial S. Colledge 1 The Judges and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery, met at the Court-House in the City of Oxford. 1693C. Mather Wonders Invis. World (1862) 6 Considering the Place that I hold in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. xix. 269 The courts of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 177 The commissions which confer the criminal jurisdiction are three in number: 1, a commission of peace; 2, a commission of oyer and terminer; and, 3, a commission of general gaol delivery.
c.1469J. Paston in P. Lett. II. 357 When hys jugys sat on the oyeer determyner in Norwyche, he beyng ther. 1480Caxton tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 578 Anone after cam doune one Oyer determyne, for to doo iustyce on alle them that soo rebellyd in the cyte. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 630 The mayre..by vertu of y⊇ sayd comyssyon, callyd an oyer determyner, and a day was kept at Guyldhall. 1577Fleetwood in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 55 Upon Saterday last in the after noone we had an Oier and Determiner in the Guyld Hall, the which we use to hold in the vacation tyme to kepe the people in obedience.
d. In some of the States of the American Union: A court of higher criminal jurisdiction.
1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. xxxvii. 24 The governor is directed to appoint judges, commissioners of oyer and terminer. |