n. Originally, a sitting or session of a legislative body or court.n. Hence An edict, ordinance, or enactment made at such a session or sitting, or issued by such a body.n. A jury, or trial by jury: now used only in Scotland with reference to criminal causes. See grand assize, below.n. A name given to certain writs commanding juries to be summoned for the trial of causes: as, assize of novel disseizin, the ancient common-law remedy for the recovery of the possession of lands.n. The verdict of a jury in such a case.n. The periodical session held by royal commission by at least one of the judges of the superior courts directed to take the assizes or verdicts of a particular jury (anciently called the assize), in each of the counties of England and Wales (with the exception of London and the parts adjoining), for the purpose of trying issues nisi prius and jail-delivery for criminal cases: popularly called the assizes.n. In a more general sense, any court or session of a court of justice.n. Situation; place.n. Judgment: as, the last or great assize (that is, the last judgment or last day).n. Sometimes spelled assise.In a general sense, to fix; appoint.To fix the rate of; assess, as taxes.To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or authoritative regulation.n. In geological classification, the French equivalent of the term bed, constituting one of the minor subdivisions in geology. An assize, or bed, is composed of two or more zones; two or more assizes, or beds, constitute a group, stage, or étage.