Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Assize utrum

[latin] hist. A writ to determine whether land claimed by a church was a lay or spiritual tenure. 0 this writ is named after its emphatic word, which required the fact-finder to determine whether (utrum) the land belonged to the church. - also termed (erroneously) assize of utrum.