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/əˈsīz/,
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assizes, plural;
  1. 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. the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale
  2. an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property
  3. (assizes) the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts)
  4. (Assizes (Ireland)) In the Republic of Ireland the Assizes, modelled on the English system, were replaced in the early years of the Irish Free State by the Circuit Court system in accordance with the Courts of Justice Act, 1924. ...
  5. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury; The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors
  6. (assizes) sessions held twice a year in areas outside London where law cases, too serious to be tried by local justice, were presided over by circuit-riding London judges. The assizes usually commenced with great ceremony.
  7. In Scotland this word is occasionally and formally used to mean a jury.
  8. another term for jury; also a sitting of the court in locations away from the main court centre;
  9. jury, or inquest. 2. assize herring; royalty of herring due to king from herring fishermen
  10. A royal court of justice presided over by a judge responsible for trying serious criminal and civil cases in a group of counties (known as a circuit). ...
  11. meeting of feudal vassals with the king. Also refers to decrees issued by the king after such meetings.
  12. One of a set of alternative formulations of the laws of a game, which the players may choose before starting.
  13. An itinerant court which inter alia had power to take the verdict of an assize jury of the county in land disputes.
  14. To impose or assess a tax; or, to set the price of a staple foodstuff etc.
  15. n. legislative assembly; decree, generally one fixing weights, measures, and prices, especially of bread and ale.
  16. 1. Legislative sitting, statute, statutory measure or manner.2. The decree or edict made at such a sitting.
  17. (1099): To sit. From the Latin ‘assidere’ meaning ‘sit beside someone’, it evolve to the more restricted meaning of ‘sit in judgment’ or ‘a session of a court’. It was also used to refer to the judgment itself a sort of synonym of ‘law’. Most often when setting prices or standards.
  18. List of potential jurors.
  19. a session of a court
  20. the former periodical sessions of the superior courts in English counties for trial of civil and criminal cases -- usually used in plural.