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Assize

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Noun

1. assize

the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

2. assize

an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Assize

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noun
1. (in the US)
a. 
a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
b. 
an enactment or order of such an assembly
2. English history
a trial or judicial inquest, the writ instituting such inquest, or the verdict
3. Scots law
a. 
trial by jury
b.  another name for jury1

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Assize

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noun
1.  Obsolete
a legislative assembly or any of its decrees
2.  [pl.]
court sessions held periodically in each county of England to try civil and criminal cases
3.  [pl.]
the time or place of such sessions
4. 
an inquest, the writ instituting it, or the verdict
5.  Archaic
a. 
a law regulating standards of price, measure, weight, ingredients, etc. for goods to be sold
b. 
these standards

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Assize

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n.
Law
1.
a. A judicial inquest, the writ by which it is instituted, or the verdict of the jurors.
b. A decree or edict rendered at such an inquest.
2. assizes
a. One of the periodic court sessions formerly held in each of the counties of England and Wales for the trial of civil or criminal cases.
b. The time or place of such sessions.

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