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Assize or Assizes , in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those.
Judicial institutions
Legal regulations and measures
Assize of Bread and Ale , an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight, and quality of the bread and beer
Assize of Clarendon , 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
Assize of darrein presentment , action over right to appoint to a benefice
Assize of mort d'ancestor , an obsolete action over inheritance of land
Assize of novel disseisin , an obsolete action to recover lands after dispossession
Assize of Northampton , additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
Grand Assize , 1179 English law about land disputes
Assizes of Ariano , laws of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
Assizes of Jerusalem , collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
Assizes of Romania , laws of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
Christianity
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