Assize: Definition and part of speech

Assize

n. Measure; dimension; size.
n. 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.
n. A special kind of jury or inquest.
n. A kind of writ or real action.
n. A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
n. A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
n. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
n. A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
n. The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; — usually in the plural.
n. The time or place of holding the court of assize; — generally in the plural, assizes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

a. Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

n. One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

n. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
n. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
n. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; — used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.

v. In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
v. A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.

n. The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
n. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
n. A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
n. The writing by which an interest is transferred.