assize
Usually assizes . a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court.
an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly.
an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry.
an action, writ, or verdict of an assize.
judgment: the last assize; the great assize.
a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.
Origin of assize
1Words Nearby assize
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use assize in a sentence
The judges of assize, by virtue of their commission of nisi prius, try the causes thus appointed.
On the other hand the assize of Arms restored the national militia to its old important place.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertA hundred and twenty more were to have been tried, but the approach of the royal troops led to the adjournment of the assize.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport AdamsOn the following day there was a crowded court-house in the assize town of the neighboring county.
So the Judges of assize were ordered in their circuits to tell the people to comply with the order and pay the money!
The Trial of Theodore Parker | Theodore Parker
British Dictionary definitions for assize
/ (əˈsaɪz) /
(in the US)
a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
an enactment or order of such an assembly
English history a trial or judicial inquest, the writ instituting such inquest, or the verdict
Scots law
trial by jury
another name for jury 1
Origin of assize
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse