ASSIZE Copy link • ASSIZEconventus (the coming together of persons, at a given time and place, for the trial of their causes). To hold an assize or the assizes, conventum agere: a judge of assize, qui jure dicundo conventus circumit. [Vid: CIRCUIT.] To have finished or returned from the assizes (i. e., a whole circuit), conventus peregisse. Assize of bread, pretium pani constitutum.