assizes

noun

  1. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

  2. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.

  3. 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.

  4. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

    "the assize of bread and other provisions"

  5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.

    "rent of assize"

  6. Measure; dimension; size.

noun

  1. A trial or hearing before such a court.