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Assizes: The word assizes is used in a multiplicity of related ways. It can refer to legislation, as in the Assizes of Roger II of Sicily promulgated in 1140, or to a legislative sitting. It can also refer to the regulations or procedures arising from legislation, as in the assize of measures or the assize of novel disseisin in England. The body carrying out the investigative element of the procedures might also be called an assize, as was a jury or jury trial in Scotland. Finally both the trial itself and the courts holding such litigation could be described as assizes. The term came to be used in England and Wales for the courts held in each county to administer criminal and civil law, until they were abolished by the Courts Act of 1971.