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assize

/uh-sahyz/US // əˈsaɪz //UK // (əˈsaɪz) //

判决,判决书,判决结果,大规模

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually assizes . a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court.
    • : an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly.
    • : an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry.
    • : an action, writ, or verdict of an assize.
    • : judgment: the last assize; the great assize.
    • : a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.

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Examples

  • The judges of assize, by virtue of their commission of nisi prius, try the causes thus appointed.

  • On the other hand the Assize of Arms restored the national militia to its old important place.

  • A hundred and twenty more were to have been tried, but the approach of the royal troops led to the adjournment of the Assize.

  • On the following day there was a crowded court-house in the assize town of the neighboring county.

  • So the Judges of Assize were ordered in their circuits to tell the people to comply with the order and pay the money!