ASSISA

In old English and Scotch law. An assise; a kind of jury or inquest; a writ; a sitting of a court; an ordinance or statute; a fixed or specific time, number, quantity, quality, price, or weight; a tribute, fine, or tax; a real action; the name of a writ. See Assise. Assisa armornm. Assise of arms. A statute or ordinance requiring the keeping of arms for the common defense. Hale, Com. Law, c. 11. Assisa continnanda. An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the party alleging them. Reg. Orig. 217. Assisa de Clarendon. The assise of Clarendon. A statute or ordinance passed in the tenth year of Henry II., by which those that were accused of any heinous crime, and not able to purge themselves, but must abjure the realm, had liberty of forty days to stay and try what succor they could get of their friends towards their sustenance in exile. Bract, fol. 136; Co. Litt 159a/ Bl. Law Dict.(2d Ed.)7 Cowell. Assisa de foresta. Assise of the forest; a statute concerning orders to be observed in the royal forests. Assisa de men suris. Assise of measures. A common rule for weights and measures, established throughout England by Richard I., in the eighth year of his reign. Hale, Com. Law, c. 7. Assisa de noenmento. An assise of nuisance ; a writ to abate or redress a nuisance. Assisa de nt rnm. An obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it. Assisa friscse fortise. Assise of fresh force, which see. Assisa mortis d’ancestoris. Assise of mort d’ancestor, which see Assisa novse dissey sinse. Assise of novel disseisin, which see. Assisa panis et cerevisise. Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fifty first year of Henry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the “statute of bread and ale.” Co. Litt. 159&; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 56; Cowell; Bract, fol. 155 Assisa proroganda. An obsolete writ, which was directed to the judges assigned to take assises, to stay proceedings, by reason of a party to them being employed in the king’s business. Reg. Orig. 208. Assisa ultimse praesentationis. Assise of darrein presentment, (q. v.)Assisa vena lium. The assise of salable commodities, or of things exposed for sale.