ALL meanings of assize
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A a - noun assize a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body 3
- noun assize an enactment or order of such an assembly 3
- noun assize a trial or judicial inquest, the writ instituting such inquest, or the verdict 3
- noun assize trial by jury 3
- noun assize a legislative assembly or any of its decrees 3
- noun assize court sessions held periodically in each county of England to try civil and criminal cases 3
- noun assize the time or place of such sessions 3
- noun assize an inquest, the writ instituting it, or the verdict 3
- noun assize a law regulating standards of price, measure, weight, ingredients, etc. for goods to be sold 3
- noun assize these standards 3
- noun assize A court that formerly sat at intervals in each county of England and Wales to administer the civil and criminal law. In 1972 the civil jurisdiction of assizes was transferred to the High Court, and the criminal jurisdiction to the Crown Court. 1
- noun assize Usually, assizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court. 1
- noun assize an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly. 1
- noun assize an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry. 1
- noun assize an action, writ, or verdict of an assize. 1
- noun assize judgment: the last assize; the great assize. 1
- noun assize a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market. 1
- noun assize A session or inquiry made before a court or jury. 0
- noun assize The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors. 0
- noun assize 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. 0
- noun assize A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures. 0
- noun assize Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc. 0
- noun assize (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Measure; dimension; size. 0