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ASSIZE
- a session of a legislative or judicial body [n ASSIZES]
- a judicial inquest
- action to be decided by such an inquest, the writ for instituting it, or the verdict or finding rendered by the jury
- trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court
- edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly
- inquest before members of a jury or assessors; judicial inquiry
- action, writ, or verdict of an assize
- to assess (to estimate (to calculate)) [v ASSIZED, ASSIZING, ASSIZES]