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the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

A special kind of jury or inquest.

A kind of writ or real action.

A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: 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; A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.

A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.

Measure; dimension; size.

To assess; to value; to rate.

To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

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.

The time or place of holding the court of assize; - generally in the plural, assizes.

A special kind of jury or inquest.

A kind of writ or real action.

A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: 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; A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.

A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.

Measure; dimension; size.

To assess; to value; to rate.

To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

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.

The time or place of holding the court of assize; - generally in the plural, assizes.

A court for the trial by jury of civil or criminal cases, held regularly in each country of England by judges of the Supreme Court: usually in plural; the time or place of holding the assize: usually in plural.

To assess: to set or fix the quantity or price.

A statute settling the weight, measure, or price of anything:-pl. the sessions or sittings of a court held in English and Canadian counties twice a year, at which causes are tried by a judge and jury.

Assizer.

To fix measures, weights, or prices.

A court or its session, or time and place of sitting; used chiefly in the plural.

Originally an assembly of knights and substantial men, with a batliff or justice for public business; any court of justice: an ordinance regulating weight, measure, and price of certain articles of common consumption; the weight, measure, or price itself. See Assess.

To fix the weight, measure, or price of commodities; to assess, as taxes.

A court of justice in England held twice a-year in every county; sing., a statute regulating the measure and price of commodities.

To fix measures or rates; to settle.

n. [Latin] Lit., a sitting; –an order or regulation; –the periodical sessions of the superior courts in England; –time or place of holding the court.

A court of judicature held twice a year in every county in which causes are tried by a judge and jury; an ordinance or statute to determine the weight of bread.