Literary usage of Assizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antiquities of Shropshire by Robert William Eyton (1854)
"And Richard said that he claimed such market and fair by the aforesaid charter,
and the privilege of assizing bread and beer, as appurtenant to the said ..."
2. History of the New Netherlands: By William Dunlap by William Dunlap, Adriaen van der Donck (1840)
"Jacob Arden, another butcher, is complained of, for speaking in a contemptuous
manner, and publickly violating the law for assizing all kinds of provisions. ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"... in making and assizing of the several sorts of assize, bread which shall be
made for sale, in any place where art assize shall be thought proper to be ..."
4. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario, High Court of Justice (1883)
"The apparent meaning of "the assize of bread "seems to be " the power or privilege
of assizing or adjusting the weight or measure of bread": ..."
5. History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York by William Dunlap (1840)
"The former law of assizing, or fixing the price of provision, is repealed, and
another passed, fixing the price of beef 4Jd. per Ib., pork 5J per Ib., veal, ..."
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