Assizes (disambiguation)

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