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Assizes

A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

📖 Definitions of "Assizes"

noun
  1. 1

    A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

  2. 2

    The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.

  3. 3

    An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.

  4. 4

    A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

    "the assize of bread and other provisions"

noun
  1. 1

    A trial or hearing before such a court.

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