noun
1.
Usually, assizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court.
2.
an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly.
3.
an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry.
4.
an action, writ, or verdict of an assize.
5.
judgment: the last assize; the great assize.
6.
a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.
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| —n | |
| 1. | in the US |
| a. a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body | |
| b. an enactment or order of such an assembly | |
| 2. | English history a trial or judicial inquest, the writ instituting such inquest, or the verdict |
| 3. | Scots law |
| a. trial by jury | |
| b. another name for jury | |
| [C13: from Old French assise session, from asseoir to seat, from Latin assidēre to sit beside; see | |
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Word Origin & History
assize
c.1300 (attested from mid-12c. in Anglo-L.), from O.Fr. asise "session" (12c.), from fem. pp. of asseoir "to cause to sit," from L. assidere (see assess). Originally "all legal proceedings of the nature of inquests or recognitions;" hence sessions held periodically in each
Eng. county to administer civil and criminal justice.
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