Assay
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. assaia, assaya; from Fr. assays, assaie, essay, a proof or trial.] In old English law. An examination, proof or trial. A tiial of weights and measures by a standard; as by the constituted authorities, clerks of marlsts, <fec.
Iteff, Griff. 280.
See Assaia. A trial or examination of certain commodities, as bread, cloths, <bc.
Cowell. Blount.
See Assaia. A trial or test of the purity of metals and of coined money. This is the only sense in which the word is now used.