Definition of assize

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of assize is as below...

Assize (n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

Lern More About Assize

Recognitor :: Recognitor (n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Assize :: Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
Chapiter :: Chapiter (n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles..
Verderor :: Verderor (n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses..
Sise :: Sise (n.) An assize.
Assize :: Assize (v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority..
Taxer :: Taxer (n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed..
Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..
Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A kind of writ or real action.
Assize :: Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
Assizer :: Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..
Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..
Assized :: Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assiz.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
Assize :: Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes..
Assize :: Assize (n.) Measure; dimension; size.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us