1. assize - Noun
2. assize - Verb
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.
A special kind of jury or inquest.
A kind of writ or real action.
A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
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.
Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
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.
The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.
Measure; dimension; size.
To assess; to value; to rate.
To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA later Daniel Seon was appointed Clerk of the House of Assembly and Prothonotary of the Court of General Assize in 1889 (he was also the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and died in 1909). Source: Internet
Brown, Atholl and the Death of James I, p. 28 Atholl participated at the assize that sat over the 24/25 May 1425 that tried and found the prominent members of the Albany Stewarts guilty of rebellion—their executions followed swiftly. Source: Internet
An assize of seven earls and fourteen lesser nobles were appointed to hear the evidence that linked the prisoners to the rebellion in the Lennox. Source: Internet
He was probably responsible for an assize making all rear-vassals directly subject to the king and eligible to appear at the Haute Cour. Source: Internet
Over fifty prisoners condemned at the Bodmin Assize Court were hanged at the prison. Source: Internet
The traditional county of Tipperary was split into two judicial counties (or ridings ) following the establishment of assize courts in 1838. Source: Internet