<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>Usually assizes.</li><li>A trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court.</li><li>An edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly.</li><li>An inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry.</li><li>An action, writ, or verdict of an assize.</li><li>Judgment: the last assize; the great assize.</li><li>A statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.</li></ul>