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Assisus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Assisa.

L. Lat. [from assidere, to fix or settle.] Fixed or certain. Assisus reditus; a fixed, certain, set or standing rent.

Kennett's Par. Ant. 314, 355.

Called rent of assise.

2 Bl. Com. 42.

Terra assisa; land let or farmed out for a certain assessed rent.

Cowell. Situated.

Villa de Jermuth assisa est super arenam maris; the town of Yarmouth is situated on the sea shore. Vet. MS. apud Spelman, voc.

Assisa.