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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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..
Assized :: Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assiz.
Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin..
Recognitor :: Recognitor (n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures..
Sise :: Sise (n.) An assize.
Assize :: Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
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..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..
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..
Assize :: Assize (v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A kind of writ or real action.
Assize :: Assize (n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
Assize :: Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes..
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..
Assizer :: Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc..
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..
Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
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