Definition of assize

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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..

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Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
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..
Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin..
Assize :: Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes..
Sise :: Sise (n.) An assize.
Recognitor :: Recognitor (n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
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..
Assized :: Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assiz.
Assize :: Assize (n.) Measure; dimension; size.
Assize :: Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
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..
Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..
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.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
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..
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.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A kind of writ or real action.
Assizer :: Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc..
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