Assizes (disambiguation)
Assize or Assizes may refer to:
- in common law countries
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- assizes (England and Wales), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
- assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
- Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
- Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
- Assize (Scotland)
- writ of assize, the ancient writ issued by an English court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery
- Justices of Assize
- in captured territories
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- Council of Assizes formed after the capture of New York from the Dutch
- a modern court in civil law countries
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- Court of Assize (Belgium), legal court in Belgium
- Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies
- Corte d'Assise, Italian court
- the law of a country, specifically
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- Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
- Assizes of Ariano, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
- Assizes of Romania, law of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
- Assizes of Capua, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1220)
- Assizes of Antioch, translated in medieval times by Sempad the Constable
- a meeting
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- European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990
- a regulation
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- Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight and quality of the bread and beer
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