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assize definition - legal

n

  1. Often spelled assizes: a session of a court or legislative body.
  2. The time or place of, or a law enacted by, such a session.
  3. A cause of action, especially one relating to the ownership or possession of land.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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