Assize is valid Scrabble Word

Is assize a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for ASSIZE in dictionary:

VERB:

(obsolete) to assess, to fix the quantity of
To assess; to value; to rate.
To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

NOUN:

a legislative session, dealing e.g. with weights, measures, and prices
a court which formerly sat at intervals in each county of England and Wales to administer the civil and criminal law. In 1972 the civil jurisdiction of assizes was transferred to the High Court, and the criminal jurisdiction to the Crown Court.
sitting of a legislative assembly
An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
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: (1) 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; (2) 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.
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.
Measure; dimension; size.
the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale
an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a session of a legislative or judicial body

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How to use ASSIZE in a sentence

At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
CHAPTER VI THE ASSIZE OF CLARENDON The flight of the archbishop marked the opening of a new phase in the struggle.
The Assize of Clarendon laid down the principles on which the administration of justice was to be carried out.
By his Assize Englishmen were still to be tried in their ancient courts.
In the Assize of Northampton, held in January 1176, the king confirmed and perfected the judicial legislation which he had begun ten years before in the Assize of Clarendon.
CHAPTER X THE COURT OF HENRY In the years that followed the Assize of Northampton Henry was at the height of his power.
As nothing will persuade him that he is not, the Clerk of Assize leaves it to the warders to decide which of the two is which.
At this same assize, there was a man indicted for theft.
It may be that your name is being called even at this very moment at the Great Assize.
The chord of the arc was formed by a large Assize Hall, with a broad flight of granite steps, and a cannon planted on either side of the steps.

Below the Assize Hall an open gravelled space sloped gently down to a line of iron railings and another flight of granite steps leading into the main street.
The first dinner of this kind at which I had the honor to be present took place during assize time, and included among the guests the judges and the prominent members of the bar.
The same road is trodden by the prisoners committed for trial on their way to and from the Conciergerie and the Assize Court.
This explains the miraculous ease with which information can be conveyed, during the sitting of the Courts, to the officials and the presidents of the Assize Courts.
The stairs lead down to one of the Assize Courts, and the doors open into another.
There the absorbing idea in every mind is the drama of the Assize Court, since the culprit comes only to be examined or to be sentenced.
Extracts from the Assize rolls recording the proceedings of the special commission will soon be published by the Royal Historical Society.
A hunt is something like an Assize circuit, where certain great guns show everywhere, and smaller men drop in here and there, snatching a day or a brief, as the case may be.
It is true that the English judge who should have gone on Assize had fallen ill, and there was no other to take his place.
Parts of the building are devoted to the courts of assize, and to tribunals of audience of almost every description.
Breaking the assize of beer meant selling it without a licence, or of bad quality.
His travels never exceeded the distance of the county town, and that only at assize or session time, or to attend an election.
But when, at the Assize Court, he brought in the key to the whole case, he did not tell the whole truth.
If I am not back on the day on which Monsieur Darzac is to appear before the Assize Court, have this letter opened and read to the court, after all the witnesses have been heard.
Some light on this point is derived from the Northumberland Assize Rolls of the years 1256 and 1279.
In London this court is known as the Central Criminal Court, and it also acts as the Assize Court.
At the Court of Assize the prisoner is tried by a jury of twelve.
Keble preached the assize Sermon in the University Pulpit.
A second law was established, regulating the price and assize of bread, and subjecting to severe penalties those who should be concerned in its adulteration.
They go in, and the Judges stay until the Assize is over.
An assize ball was still held, though it was falling into some neglect and disrepute.
He saw himself the supreme being of a unique assize.
The assize being sworn and admitted the abbot stepped forward and called upon the God of the Christians to punish the peace breaker.
But the Assize of Public Opinion denied the petition, and the dear people bought the book at from three to five dollars a copy.
The first assize of ale seems not to have been enacted till the reign of Henry III.
The first general example of an English law fixing the price of a commodity is in 1266, the Assize of Bread and Beer.

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