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Home Dictionary Name: assiseAssise of the forest
Assise of the forest, a statute touching orders to be observed in the king's forest, Manwood, 35. See Com. Dig., tit. 'Assise.'...
Assise
Assise. See ASSIZE....
Assise de utrum
Assise de utrum, an obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it, Fitz. N. B. 48....
Assise of arms
Assise of arms, 27 Hen. 2, A. D. 1181....
Assise of bread
Assise of bread, the fixed rate for the sale of bread. Long obsolete....
Assise of darrein presentment
Assise of darrein presentment, or last presentation; it lay when a person, or his ancestors, under whom he claims, had presented a clerk to a benefice who was duly instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presents a clerk, thus disturbing the right of the lawful patron; upon this, the patron issued this writ, directed to the sheriff to summon an assize or jury, to inquire who was the last patron that presented to the church now vacant, of which the plaintiff complains that he is deforced by the defendant, Termes de la Lay. It was, however, abolished, and recourse had to the action of quare impedit (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27). But since the (English) C. L. P. Act, 1860, s. 26, quare impedit cannot be brought, an action in the King's Bench (formerly Common Pleas) Division of the High Court of Justice being substituted for it....
Assise of mort d' ancestor
Assise of mort d' ancestor, a writ which lay where a person's father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, etc., died, seised of land, and a stranger abated. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27....
Assise of novel disseisin
Assise of novel disseisin, an action to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27....
Assiser
Assiser, an officer who has the care and oversight of weights and measures....
Assises de Jerusalem
Assises de Jerusalem, a monument of feudal jurisprudence, compiled by Gottfried of Godfrey of Bouillon, for the government of the Holy City after its conquest by the Crusaders. It was revised in the 13th and 14th centuries for the use of the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus, 1 Colq. R. C. L. s. 80, p. 86...
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