Assisa

In old English and Scotch law. An assise; a kind of jury or inquest; a writ; a sitting of a court; an ordinance or statute; a fixed or specific time, number, quantity, quality, price or weight; a tribute, fine or tax; a rcal action; the name of a writ See Assise.

— Assisa armorum. Assise of arms. A statute or ordinance requiring the keeping of arms for the common defense. Hale, Com. Law, c. 11.

— Assisa continuanda. An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the party alleging them. Reg. Orig. 217.

— Assisa de Clarendon. The assise of Clarendon. A statute or ordinance passed m the tenth year of Henry II., by which those that were accused of any heinous crime, and not able to purge themselves, but must abjure the realm, had liberty of forty days to stay and try what succor they could get of their friends towards their sustenance in exile. Bract, fol. 136; Co.. Litt 159; Cowell.

— Assisa de foresta. Assise of the forest; a statute concerning orders to be observed in the royal forests.

— Assisa de mensuris. Assise of measures. A common rule for weights and measures, established throughout England by Richard I., in the eighth year of his reign. Hale, Com. Law, c. 7.

— Assisa de noeumento. An assise of nuisance ; a writ to abate or redress a nuisance.

— Assisa de utrum. An obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it.

— Assisa friscæ fortiæ. Assise of fresh force, which see.

— Assisa mortis d'ancestoris. Assise of mort d'anœstor, which see

— Assisa novæ dissey-sinæ. Assise of novel disseisin, which see.

— Assisa panis et cerevisiæ. Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the "statute of bread and ale." Co. Litt. 159b; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 56; Cowell; Bract fol. 155

— Assisa proroganda. An obsolete writ, which was directed to the judges assigned to take assises, to stay proceedings, by reason of a party to them being employed in the king's business. Reg. Orig. 208.

— Assisa nltimæ praesentationis. Assise of darrein presentment, (q. v.)

— Assisa venalium. The assise of salable commodities, or of things exposed for sale.

I. I. In old English and Scots law. or inquest (distinguished from the often turned into it); a species of writ sittings of a court; a statute, ordinance number; a specified or determinate quired by law in certain commodities a fine or mulct. Assisa armorum: quiring the keeping of arms for cadere: to fail in an assise; to be an ancient writ directed to the justices to give time to produce records. of Clarendon; a statute or ordinance giving time to accused persons about the means of support in exile. Assisa ures; a common rule for weights and eighth year of Richard L Assisa de q. V. Assisa et assaia panis: the forestse, or de foresta: assise of the of the thirty-fourth year of Edward V. Ordinatio forestoe. Assisa friscae q. V. Assisa generaiis: an old name ntriim: assise of utrum, q. v. Assisa morte antecessoris: assise of mort disseysinse, or de nova disseisina: q. V. Assisa panis et cere visia): statute of 51 Henry III. regulating ganda: a writ to stay proceedings at parties was engaged in the king's tationis, or de ultima presentatione: ment, q. v. Assisa venalium: the or exposed for sale. Assisa venit dum: the assise comes or came to juratse: assises, ordained, and sworn assise.

i Inold English and Scotch law. An assise; a kind of jury or inquest; a wril; a sitting of a court; an ordinance or statute; a fixed or specitic time, number, quantity, quality, price, or weight; a tribute, fine, or tax; a real action; the name of a writ. See

/., Assise,/)-., Assize. A jury, inquest, summoned by a writ of assize. Also, a court; the sittings of a court; an ordinance or statute; a tax or tribute; an adjustment or measure; an action at law, a real action; a writ. The assizes: sessions of courts of assize and nisi prius, which are composed of two or more commissioners (in England) called judges of assize and nisi prius, who are sent, by special commission from the Crown, on circuits all around the kingdom, to try, by a jury of the respective counties, such matters of fact as are then under dispute at Westminster Hall. These judges are judges of the superior common-law courts, and the successors of the ancient "justices in eyre," justiciarii in itinere; they sit by virtue of several authorities, viz.: 1. Commission of oyer and terminer, to deal with treasons, felonies, etc. 2. Of gaol delivery, to try every prisoner in gaol, for whatever offence. 3. Of nisi prius, to try all questions of fact on cases in which issue has been joined in the courts of Westminster. 4. Of peace, by which all justices of the peace and sheriffs are bound to be present at their 5. Of assize, to take assizes and have and real action, having for its object ■whereof the demandant or his ancestors seised. It was not necessary, as in a writ unlawful beginning of the tenant's size: the certain estab Ushed rents of the copyholders of a manor, which cannot varied. Those of the freeholders are rents, reditu! cap Uales j and both sorts guieii reditus, because thereby the tenant other services. Assisa cadere (to fall nonsuited. Assisa cadit in juratam jury): the assize is converted into a jury. an ancient writ directed to the justices cause, when time is desired for the production sisa proroganda: a writ to stay because one of the parties was engaged Assize of darrein presentment, Assisa tionis, I. An assize of last presentation. mine who had the gift of a church living, impedit. Assize of fresh force, An action, assize, which lay by a custom the recovery of lauds of which the demandant within forty days. Assize of mort mortis antecessoris, /. An assize to demandant's father, mother, uncle, aunt, or niece died seised, and a stranger abated. disseisin, Assisa novae disseisinae, /. land of which the complainant had been circuit of the justices in eyre, i. e. within nuisance, Assisa de nocumento, I. nuisance, by having it abated and recovering of utrum, assisa juris utrum, I. An the parson's writ of right, which lay for church lands alienated by his predecessors. peculiar jury, introduced by Henry II. of battel for the trial of writs of right. four knights, who chose twelve others, recognitors. All these assizes are now the recovery of lands had unjustly been disof entry, to show the possession. Rents of asfreeholders and ancient be departed from or frequently called chiefare called quitrents, goes quit and free of from the assize): to be (the assize falls to a Assisa continuanda: of assize to continue a of records. Asproceedings at the assizes in the King's business. ultlmse prsssenta- An action to detersuperseded by qiiare Assisa friscae fortiae, I. of a city or borough for had been disseised d'anoestor,/r., Assisa recover land of which the brother, sister, nephew, Assize of novel An assize to recover disseised since the last seven years. Assize of An assize to remedy a damages. Assize assize sometimes called him or a vicar to recover Grand assize. A and authorized in lieu The sheriff returned making in all sixteen obsolete.

See Aseieus.