Assistance
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
See "Writ of Assistance." ASSISUS (Lat. from assidere, to fix or settle).
In old English law
Fixed or certain. Assisus reditus, a fixed, certain, or pending rent.
Kennett, Par. Ant. 314, 335.
Called "rent of assize."
2 Bl. Comm. 42.
Terra assisa, land let or farmed out for a certain assessed rent.
Cowell.