- magna assisa eligenda
- /maegna asayza elajenda/ An ancient writ to summon four lawful knights before the justices of assize, there to choose twelve others, with themselves to constitute the grand assize or great jury, to try the matter of right. The trial by grand assize was instituted by Henry II, in parliament, as an alternative to the dual in a writ of right. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV, c. 27
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.