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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.

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.

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon 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 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..

Assize :: Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes..

Assize :: Assize (n.) Measure; dimension; size.

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..

Sise :: Sise (n.) An assize.

Assize :: Assize (n.) A kind of writ or real action.

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.) 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..

Assize :: Assize (v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority..

Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

Assize :: Assize (n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.

Assized :: Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assiz.

Assize :: Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate.

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