different between verdict vs assize

English

Etymology

From Middle English verdit, from Old French verdit, from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.d?kt/

Noun

verdict (plural verdicts)

1. (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
2. An opinion or judgement.

Derived terms

• bastard verdict
• open verdict
• Scottish verdict
• special verdict
• verdictive
• verdict’s out
• verdict’s in

Translations

Further reading

• verdict in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• verdict in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.dikt/

Noun

verdict m (plural verdicts)

1. verdict

Middle English

Noun

verdict

1. Alternative form of verdit

Old French

Noun

verdict m (oblique plural verdicz or verdictz, nominative singular verdicz or verdictz, nominative plural verdict)

1. Alternative form of verdit

Romanian

Etymology

From French verdict.

Noun

verdict n (plural verdicte)

1. verdict

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English assise, from Old French assises (sat), from Latin assidere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sa?z/

Noun

assize (plural assizes)

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

   • 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus

     the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole

6. (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.

   • an hundred cubits high by just assize

Translations

Verb

assize (third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized)

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

References

assize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Saizes