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Assize, or assise [fr. assideo, Lat., to sit together; whence assire, O. Fr., to set, assis, set, seated, sealed], anciently a statute or ordinance, e.g., Assize of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. Hence the judicial assemblies, held by the king's commission in every county as well to take indictments as to try causes at Nisi Prius, are commonly termed the assizes. There are two commissions. (I.) General, which is issued twice a year to the judges being usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many other gentlemen of the county, by which they are empowered to try treasons, felonies, etc. This is the largest commission. (2) Of gaol delivery, directed to the judges and the clerk of assize or associate, empowering them to try every prisoner in the gaol ...
Assise
Assise. See ASSIZE....
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 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 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 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....
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