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oyer and terminer
In English law, Oyer and terminer (; a partial translation of the Anglo-French ''oyer et terminer'' which literally means "to hear and determine"〔(Oyer and terminer ), Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved February 7, 2011.〕) was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat. The commission was also known as audiendo et terminando.
By the commission of oyer and terminer the commissioners (in practice the judges of assize, though other persons were named with them in the commission) were commanded to make diligent inquiry into all treasons, felonies and misdemeanours whatever committed in the counties specified in the commission, and to hear and determine the same according to law. The inquiry was by means of the grand jury; after the grand jury had found the bills of indictment submitted to it, the commissioners proceeded to hear and determine by means of the petit jury. The words oyer and terminer were also used to denote the court which had jurisdiction to try offences within the limits to which the commission of oyer and terminer extended.
==Use in Scotland==
By the Treason Act 1708, the Crown had power to issue commissions of oyer and terminer in Scotland for the trial of treason and misprision of treason. Three Lords of Justiciary had to be in any such commission. An indictment for either of the offences mentioned could be removed by certiorari from the court of oyer and terminer into the High Court of Justiciary.
Commissions of oyer and terminer in Scotland have been exercised at various points in history, for example the trial of Radicals during the "Radical War" of 1820.
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