assize legal definition

noun

1. Often spelled assizes: a session of a court or legislative body.
2. The time or place of, or a law enacted by, such a session.
3. A cause of action, especially one relating to the ownership or possession of land.
4. A trial, especially one presided over by an itinerant judge and held in the county that is the location of the land, dispute, or crime in question.
5. The jury at such a trial.

general assize