Assize or Assizes may refer to:

in common law countries

• assizes (England and Wales), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)

• assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)

• Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England

• Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England

• writ of assize, the ancient writ issued by an English court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery

• Justices of Assize

in captured territories

• Council of Assizes formed after the capture of New York from the Dutch

a modern court in civil law countries

• Court of Assize (Belgium), legal court in Belgium

• Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies

• Corte d'Assise, Italian court

the law of a country, specifically

• Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders

• Assizes of Ariano, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)

• Assizes of Romania, law of the Latin Empire of Constantinople

• Assizes of Capua, law of the Kingdom of Sicily (1220)

• Assizes of Antioch, translated in medieval times by Sempad the Constable

a meeting

• European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990

a regulation

• Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight and quality of the bread and beer