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• assize — assize, or assise (obsolete) /asayz/ An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that they gave a verdict from… …   Black's law dictionary

• assize, or assise — (obsolete) /asayz/ An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that they gave a verdict from their own… …   Black's law dictionary

• assize — assize, or assise (obsolete) /asayz/ An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that they gave a verdict from… …   Black's law dictionary

• assize, or assise — (obsolete) /asayz/ An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that they gave a verdict from their own… …   Black's law dictionary

• Assize — As*size , n. [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?re to sit by; ad + sed[=e]re to sit. See {Sit}, {Size}, and cf. {Excise},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• assize — session of a law court, c.1300 (attested from mid 12c. in Anglo Latin), from O.Fr. assise session, sitting of a court (12c.), properly fem. pp. of asseoir to cause to sit, from L. assidere (see ASSESS (Cf. assess)). Originally all legal… …   Etymology dictionary

• Assize of Clarendon — The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of Henry II of England that began the transformation of English law from such systems for deciding the prevailing party in a case as trial by ordeal or trial by battle to an evidentiary model, in which… …   Wikipedia

• Assize Court — The Court of Assize, or Assizes, is a medieval term for legal codes (such as Assizes of Jerusalem ), that continues to be used in modern times. It is the name of criminal courts in several countries. In France, Belgium and Italy the court is… …   Wikipedia

• assize — /euh suyz /, n. 1. Usually, assizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court. 2. an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly …   Universalium

• justice in eyre — /jastas in er/ From the old French word eire, i.e., a journey. Those justices who in ancient times were sent by commission into various counties, to hear more especially such causes as were termed pleas of the crown, were called justices in eyre …   Black's law dictionary

• justice in eyre — /jastas in er/ From the old French word eire, i.e., a journey. Those justices who in ancient times were sent by commission into various counties, to hear more especially such causes as were termed pleas of the crown, were called justices in eyre …   Black's law dictionary