Assizes (disambiguation) explained
Assize or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those.
Judicial institutions
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
See also