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Webster 1913 Edition
Assize
As-size′
,Noun.
1.
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.
[Obs.]
2.
(Law)
(a)
A special kind of jury or inquest.
(b)
A kind of writ or real action.
(c)
A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
(d)
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
; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. assize
of bread and other provisions(e)
Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.;
as, rent of
. assize
Glanvill.
Spelman.
Cowell.
Blackstone.
Tomlins.
Burrill.
[This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases.
Stephen.
Burrill.
Erskine.
] (f)
A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
Blackstone.
Wharton.
Encyc. Brit.
(g)
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.
Brande.
Wharton.
Craig.
Burrill.
(h)
The time or place of holding the court of assize; – generally in the plural, assizes.
3.
Measure; dimension; size.
[In this sense now corrupted into
size
.] An hundred cubits high by just
assize
. Spenser.
[Formerly written, as in French,
assise
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Assize
ASSI'ZE
,Definition 2024
assize
assize
English
Noun
assize (plural assizes)
- A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
- The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
- 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.
- A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
- the assize of bread and other provisions
- Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
- rent of assize
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.
- Spenser
- an hundred cubits high by just assize
- Spenser
Translations
a session or inquiry made before a court or jury
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References
assize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913