"Petite Assize" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
Used in contradistino-tion from the grand assize, which was a jury to decide on questions of property. Petits assize, a jury to decide on questions of possession. Britt, c. 42; Glan. lib. 2, cc. 6, 7
The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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A special kind of jury or inquest.
Read the complete definitionA verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
Read the complete definitionA court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a …
Read the complete definitionor ASSIZE. 1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were sum-moned …
Read the complete definitionIn the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who de-dde on the conviction or. acquittal of …
Read the complete definitionCourts in England composed of two or more commissioners, called “judges of assize,” (or of “assize and nisi prius,") who …
Read the complete definitionAn ancient writ to summon four lawful knights before the justices of assize, there to choose twelve others, with themselves …
Read the complete definitionAs to grand “Assize,” “Bill of Sale," “Cape,” “Distress,” “Jury," “Larceny," and “Serjeanty,” see those titles
Read the complete definitionIS. A writ formerly granted for freeing and discharging persons from serv-ing on assizes and juries. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 165
Read the complete definitionOne of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Read the complete definitionThe verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
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