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assize

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as⋅size

  [uh-sahyz]
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–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.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME asise < OF: a sitting, n. use of fem. of asis seated at (ptp. of aseeir), equiv. to a- a- 5 + -sis < L sēssum (sed- s. of sedēre to sit + -tus ptp. suffix)
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as·size   (ə-sīz')   
n.  

    1. A session of a court.

    2. A decree or edict rendered at such a session.

    3. An ordinance regulating weights and measures and the weights and prices of articles of consumption.

    4. The standards so established.

    5. One of the periodic court sessions formerly held in each of the counties of England and Wales for the trial of civil or criminal cases.

    6. The time or place of such sessions.

    1. An ordinance regulating weights and measures and the weights and prices of articles of consumption.

    2. The standards so established.

    3. One of the periodic court sessions formerly held in each of the counties of England and Wales for the trial of civil or criminal cases.

    4. The time or place of such sessions.

  3. Law A judicial inquest, the writ by which it is instituted, or the verdict of the jurors.

  4. assizes

    1. One of the periodic court sessions formerly held in each of the counties of England and Wales for the trial of civil or criminal cases.

    2. The time or place of such sessions.


[Middle English assise, from Old French, from past participle of asseoir, to seat, from Latin assidēre, to sit beside; see assiduous.]
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