Grand assize
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A peculiar species of trial by jury, introduced in the time of Henry II., giving the tenant or defendant in a writ of right the alternative of a trial by battel, or by his peers.
Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 42, § 13. See 3 Bl. Comm. 341.