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1.Usually, assizes. a trial session, civil or criminal, held periodically in specific locations in England, usually by a judge of a superior court.
2.an edict, ordinance, or enactment made at a session of a legislative assembly.
3.an inquest before members of a jury or assessors; a judicial inquiry.
4.an action, writ, or verdict of an assize.
5.judgment: the last assize; the great assize.
6.a statute for the regulation and control of weights and measures or prices of general commodities in the market.
Gonna say that 5 is the most likely answer here