Look up assize in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Assize or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those.

Judicial institutions

• Courts of Assizes, a former judicial institution in England and Wales
• Assize (Scotland), in Scots law a trial by jury
• Assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
• Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies
• Corte d'Assise, Italian court
• Council of Assizes, lawmaking body in New York after its capture from the Dutch
• Court of assizes, criminal court in Belgium
• European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990

Legal regulations and measures

• Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight, and quality of the bread and beer
• Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
• Assize of darrein presentment, action over right to appoint to a benefice
• Assize of mort d'ancestor, an obsolete action over inheritance of land
• Assize of novel disseisin, an obsolete action to recover lands after dispossession
• Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
• Grand Assize, 1179 English law about land disputes
• Assizes of Ariano, laws of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
• Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
• Assizes of Romania, laws of the Latin Empire of Constantinople

Christianity

• Great Assize, term for the Last Judgment

See also

• Assize of Arms (disambiguation)
• Black Assize of Exeter 1586
• Black Assize of Oxford 1577
• Bloody Assize of 1814
• Bloody Assizes
• Clerk of Assize, a position which existed England and Wales 1285–1971
• Manchester Assize Courts, building in Manchester, England

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Assizes.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.