- commission of assize
- A commission or authority appointing the justices and serjeants named therein to sit as judges of assize in those years when the justices in eyre did not. See 3 Bl Comm 59.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
commission of assize
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