assize
assize definition - legal
n
- Often spelled assizes: a session of a court or legislative body.
- The time or place of, or a law enacted by, such a session.
- A cause of action, especially one relating to the ownership or possession of land.
- A trial, especially one presided over by an itinerant judge and held in the county that is the location of the land, dispute, or crime in question.
- The jury at such a trial.
general assize
The action, or
the trial or jury in an action, to determine the ownership of land.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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