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usually, -ssizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in england, usually by a judge of a superior court.
an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative -ssembly.
an inquest before members of a jury or -ssessors; a judicial inquiry.
an action, writ, or verdict of an -ssize.
judgment:
the last -ssize; the great -ssize.
a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.
historical examples

i shall attend to give evidence at the -ssize with mr. edwards.
life of richard trevithick, volume ii (of 2) francis trevithick

the trial came on at the court of -ssize about six weeks ago.
fantmas pierre souvestre

if ignorance would look upon its own degradation, let it spend a few hours in an -ssize court.
the history of the last trial by jury for atheism in england george jacob holyoake

nearly every -ssize is marked by a charge of this character.
cotton is king and the pro-slavery arguments various

it weigheth thirteen pounds, with their -ssize, being only weighed by the gesse of the hands it seemeth much heavier.’
a complete guide to heraldry arthur charles fox-davies

into the details of the “-ssize of arms” it is unnecessary here to enter.
freedom in service fossey john cobb hearnshaw

just send me before the -ssize court, so that i may tell the judge a few tales that will make them laugh.
the fortune of the rougons emile zola

the names of the jurymen who were to be called on to serve at the -ssize had been published.
a book of remarkable criminals h. b. irving

the -ssize sermons of charles i.’s reign were frequently seasoned with such animadversions.
a book about lawyers john cordy jeaffreson

after the dissolution it was used as the -ssize court, and subsequently as a prison.
the cathedrals of great britain p. h. ditchfield

noun
(in the us)

a sitting of a legislative -ssembly or administrative body
an enactment or order of such an -ssembly

(english history) a trial or judicial inquest, the writ inst-tuting such inquest, or the verdict
(scots law)

trial by jury
another name for jury1

n.

“session of a law court,” c.1300 (attested from mid-12c. in anglo-latin), from old french -ssise “session, sitting of a court” (12c.), properly fem. past participle of -sseoir “to cause to sit,” from latin -ssidere (see -ssess). originally “all legal proceedings of the nature of inquests or recognitions;” hence sessions held periodically in each county of england to administer civil and criminal justice.