—Assisa armorum. Assise of arms. A statute or ordinance requiring the keeping of arms for the common defense. Hale, Com. Baw, c. 11—Assisa continuanda. An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the party alleging them. Reg. Orig. 217.—Assisa de Clarendon. The assise of Clarendon. <A statute or ordinance passed in the tenth year of Henry II., by which those that were accused of any heinous crime, and not able to purge themselves, but must abjure the realm, had liberty of forty days to stay and try what succor they could get of their friends towards their sustenance in exile. Bract. fol. 136; Co. Litt. 159c;

Cowell.-Assisa de foresta. Assise of the forest; a statute concerning orders to be observed in the royal forests—Assisa de mensuxis. Assise of measures. A common rule for weights and measures, established throughout England by Richard I., in the eighth year of his reign. Hale, Com. Law, c. 7.~Assisa de mocumento. An assise of nuisance; a writ to abate or redress a nuisance.—Assisa de utrum. An obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it—Assisa friscs fortis. Assise of fresh force, which see.—As-= sisa mortis d’ancestoris. Assise of mort danccestor, which see.—Assisa nove disseysimse. Assise of novel disseisin, which see. —Assisa panis et cerevisiz. Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the “statute of bread and ale.” Co.

ASSIZES. Sessions of the justices or commissioners of assize. See ASSISE.