Catalogue description Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius

Records of the Justices of Assize from 1554 to 1971 relating to the central control of justice and administration at a local level. They include records relating to actions originating in the courts at Westminster which were tried at assizes under nisi prius procedure.

The records are mainly arranged by circuits:

• Home, Norfolk and South-Eastern Circuits
• Midland Circuit
• Northern and North-Eastern Circuits
• Oxford Circuit
• Welsh Circuits including Chester
• Western Circuit
• Cross-Circuit Records

There are also three series organised by record type which cross circuit boundaries.

The following 14 series numbers have not been used: ASSI 7, ASSI 17- ASSI 20, ASSI 27, ASSI 29, ASSI 48 - ASSI 50, ASSI 56, and ASSI 68 - ASSI 70.

Records of courts of quarter sessions are deposited locally under the Public Records Act 1958.