Crossword-Solution: ASSIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Assize | n. | 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. |
| Assize | n. | A special kind of jury or inquest. |
| Assize | n. | A kind of writ or real action. |
| Assize | n. | A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ. |
| Assize | n. | A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. |
| Assize | n. | Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. |
| Assize | n. | A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. |
| Assize | n. | The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. |
| Assize | n. | The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes. |
| Assize | n. | Measure; dimension; size. |
| Assize | v. | To assess; to value; to rate. |
| Assize | v. | To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “ASSIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Session of a legislative assembly. | 1 answer |
| Scottish Law: trial by jury | 1 answer |
| STATUARY price of bread and ale | 1 answer |
| Legislative ordinance | 1 answer |
| Judicial inquest | 1 answer |
| Judicial inquiry | 2 answers |
| Fixed standard | 2 answers |
| Official edict | 3 answers |
| Court session | 11 answers |
| judiciary | 18 answers |
| Ordinance. | 22 answers |
| BENCH ___ | 40 answers |
| Inquest | 42 answers |
| Hearing | 42 answers |
| CANON ___ | 55 answers |
| verdict | 59 answers |
| Law | 69 answers |
| judgment | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ASSIZE (5)
Such lawing also shall be done by the assize commonly used, and which is, that three claws shall be cut off without the ball of the right foot.
For the wise men say that such folk are no more within the law than kine be, and may not for their deeds be brought before leet or assize any more than kine.
The detective sat down at a desk quietly, and even without hesitation; but his eye was the iron eye of a judge at assize.
Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
The following few lines from a description of the Assize Court give a fair idea of the language:-- ``The forefront has a noble and sublime aspect, and is particularly characteristical to what it ought to represent.
Quotes with ASSIZE (1)
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).