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.