assize

A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.

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.

A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

the assize of bread and other provisions

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

To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.