📖 Definitions of "Assizes"
noun
- 1
A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
- 2
The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
- 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
A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
"the assize of bread and other provisions"
noun
- 1
A trial or hearing before such a court.
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