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assize
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ASSIZE, ASSIZES
n.[L. assideo, to sit by, of ad and sedeo, to sit. ] 1. Originally, 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. The word was sometimes applied to the general council, or Wittenagemote, of England.
2. A court in England, held in every county by special commission to one of the judges, who is called a justice of the assize, and empowered to take assizes, that is, the verdict of a jury, called the assize.
3. A jury. In this sense the word was applied to the grand assize, for the trial of property, and to the petty assize, for the trial of possession. In Scotland, the assize consists of fifteen men, selected from a greater number.
4. A writ; as an assize of novel disseisin, which is given to recover the possession of lands, tenements, rents, common, etc. , of which the tenant has been lately disseised; assize of mort d'ancestor, which lies against an abator, who enters upon land after the death of the tenant, and before the heir enters; assize of darrein presentment, which lies against a stranger who presents a clerk to a benefice.
5. A particular species of rents, established and not subject to be varied.
6. The time or place of holding the court of assize.
7. In a more general sense, any court of justice.
8. A statute of regulation; an ordinance regulating the weight, measure and price of articles sold in market; and hence the word came to signify the weight, measure or price itself; as the assize of bread.
This word is, in a certain sense, now corrupted into size, which see.
ASSIZE
v.t.To fix the weight, measure or price of commodities, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
ASSIZED
pp. Regulated in weight, measure or price, by an assize or ordinance.
ASSIZER
n.An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ASSIZE
As *size ", n. Etym: [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises,assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid to sit by; ad + sed to sit. See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess. ]
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. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.
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. Stephen. Burrill. Erskine.](f ) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit. (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. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill. (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. Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise. ]
ASSIZE
As *size ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assized; p. pr. & vb. n. Assizing.]Etym: [From Assize, n.: cf. LL. assisare to decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v.]
1. To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs. ] Gower.
2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs. ]
ASSIZER
ASSIZER As *siz "er, n.
Defn: An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
New American Oxford Dictionary
assize
as size |əˈsīz əˈsaɪz | ▶noun (usu. assizes ) historical 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. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French assise, feminine past participle of asseeir ‘sit, settle, assess, ’ from Latin assidere (see assess ).
Oxford Dictionary
assize
assize |əˈsʌɪz | ▶noun (usu. assizes ) historical a court which 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. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French assise, feminine past participle of asseeir ‘sit, settle, assess ’, from Latin assidere (see assess ).
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