Assizes (disambiguation)

Assize or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those.

Judicial institutions

 * Courts of Assizes, a former judicial institution in England and Wales
 * Assize (Scotland), in Scots law a trial by jury
 * Assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
 * Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies
 * Corte d'Assise, Italian court
 * Council of Assizes, lawmaking body in New York after its capture from the Dutch
 * Court of assizes, criminal court in Belgium
 * European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990

Legal regulations and measures

 * Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight, and quality of the bread and beer
 * Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
 * Assize of darrein presentment, action over right to appoint to a benefice
 * Assize of mort d'ancestor, an obsolete action over inheritance of land
 * Assize of novel disseisin, an obsolete action to recover lands after dispossession
 * Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
 * Grand Assize, 1179 English law about land disputes
 * Assizes of Ariano, laws of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
 * Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
 * Assizes of Romania, laws of the Latin Empire of Constantinople

Christianity

 * Great Assize, term for the Last Judgment