assize

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”

6. (obsolete)A measure, dimension, or size.

   “an hundred cubits high by just assize”

verb

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