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noun
Assize  n.  
1.
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. (Obs.)
2.
(Law)
(a)
A special kind of jury or inquest.
(b)
A kind of writ or real action.
(c)
A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
(d)
A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
(e)
Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Note: (This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases.)
(f)
A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
(g)
The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; usually in the plural.
(h)
The time or place of holding the court of assize; generally in the plural, assizes.
3.
Measure; dimension; size. (In this sense now corrupted into size) "An hundred cubits high by just assize." (Formerly written, as in French, assise)


verb
Assize  v. t.  (past & past part. assized; pres. part. assizing)  
1.
To assess; to value; to rate. (Obs.)
2.
To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. (Obs.)





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... The word Assize here means an assembly of knights or other substantial persons, held at a certain time and place where they sit with the Justice. 'Assisa' or 'Assize' is also taken for the court, place, or time at which the writs of ...
— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske
... my cheek, a husband's base desertion might in time have been forgiven, possibly at least, forgotten; but the first wail from my baby's lips awoke the wolf in me. My wrongs might slumber till that last assize, when the pitying eyes of Christ sum up the record, but hers—have made a hungry panther of my soul. Come, memory, unlock your treasure house, uncoil your spells, chant all your witching strains, and let us see whether the towers of ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... scenes in the history of the Christian pulpit than that in which Robertson of Brighton, preaching the Assize Sermon at Lewes, turned as he closed to the judges, and counsel, and jury, and bade them remember, by "the trial hour of Christ," by "the Cross of the Son of God," the sacred claims of truth: "The first lesson of the Christian life is this, ...
— The Teaching of Jesus • George Jackson
... wear gloves on the bench. No reason is assigned for this prohibition. Our judges lie under no such restraint; for both they and the rest of the court make no difficulty of receiving gloves from the sheriffs, whenever the session or assize concludes without any one receiving sentence of death, which is called a maiden assize; ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... Winter Vacation, now at an end, I have been visiting some of the theatres with a view to educating my eldest son. Hearing that in A Man's Shadow at the Haymarket there was a representation of "the Assize Chamber, Palais de Justice, Paris," I took NORTHBUTT (the name I have given to my boy, in recognition of the kindness that is habitually shown to the Junior Bar by two of the most courteous Judges of modern times) to that temple of the Drama, and was delighted ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 • Various


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