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Definition of Assize
1. Noun. The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
2. Noun. An ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property.
Definition of Assize
1. 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.
2. v. t. To assess; to value; to rate.
Definition of Assize
1. Noun. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury. ¹
2. Noun. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assize
1. a session of a legislative or judicial body [n -S]
Literary usage of Assize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"3 (2) The justices of assize. The word Assisa means originally an assembly or
court.4 The term then becomes transferred to the enactments of such a court. ..."
2. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"The assize is defined in one of the most famous of mediaeval ... It was the duty
of Justices of the Peace to " set the assize," in other words. to adjust ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The grand assize was abolished in 1833; but the term assize is still ... In the
only sense in which the word is not now almost obsolete, assize means the ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"Henry worked for the establishment of the royal power The assize throughout the
land, and, above all, for its establishment hampton. in such a shape as to ..."
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