Definitions of assize [əˈsaɪz]

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Definition of 'assize'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) assize
Usu., assizes. (in England) trial sessions, civil or criminal, held periodically by a high court.

2.  assize
an action, verdict, etc., of an assize.

3.  assize
an inquest or other judicial inquiry.

4.  assize
an enactment by a legislative assembly.

5.  assize
a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME asise < OF: session, seat, n. use of fem. of asis, ptp. of aseeir to sit, settle < L

Definition of 'assize'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) assize
the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

2. (noun) assize
an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

Definition of 'assize'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) assize
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

2. (noun) assize
a special kind of jury or inquest

3. (noun) assize
a kind of writ or real action

4. (noun) assize
a verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ

5. (noun) assize
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

6. (noun) assize
anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize

7. (noun) assize
a court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury

8. (noun) assize
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

9. (noun) assize
the time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes

10. (noun) assize
measure; dimension; size

11. assize
to assess; to value; to rate

12. assize
to fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority

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