assize

Etymology

From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, from Latin assidere.

noun

1. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
2. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
3. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
4. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
   the assize of bread and other provisions
5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
   rent of assize
   the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus
6. (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.

verb

1. (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.