Assession

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Meaning

A sitting beside or near; especially as a participant in an official proceeding such as a meeting of an organization or a court case; an official membership or seat..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sitting beside or near; especially as a participant in an official proceeding such as a meeting of an organization or a court case; an official membership or seat.
2. (historical) An official review and recognition of the feudal distribution of land, including the tenants living on that land and the terms of their holdings, which was held every seven years (the term of each tenant's lease).
3. The act of assessment.
4. Misspelling of accession.

Example Sentences

The committee recommended the Senate give advice and consent to assession in order that the United States would be able to influence the regulations and laws of the Organization to the advantage of domestic "industry and commerce."

A significant point has been the quiet and un-eventful assession of Belarus to the Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT), and the implementation of regular international nuclear safeguards inspections.

And that process is hand in hand with Russia's WTO assession.

The principle of civil procedure means that only two parties can participate in the process. However, the legislator did not limit the number of entities that could participate on the plaintiff or defendant sides. Therefore, in the process we may have to deal with the situation of the assession of a third party to a pending trial who joins one or the other party in the proceedings.

Before the holding of the assession court (a), the steward of each manor prepares from his copy of the assession book of the preceding assession, and from the memorandums which he has there entered of the subsequent alienations and deaths, a new assession book in duplicate, one part for the commissioners, the other for himself.

This book was called the assession book, and was made up thus: The deputy steward of each manor entered in a duplicate of the assession book, read at the last preceding assession, all the alienations and changes which took place between the two assessions; those alienations, which were made in form of surrenders and admittances, before alluded to, some deputy stewards noted down at the time on loose papers, while others entered them in a book kept for the purpose; and these memoranda were afterwards transferred to the margin of the duplicate assession book by the several deputy stewards.

In 1730 it had passed, by the death of Sir John Cotton, after the death of William Cotton and Elizabeth his wife, to Edward Amy, who took it at the assession in that year. He again took it at the following assession in 1738. At the next assession in 1745, it was taken by Cotton Amy, upon whose death it passed to Sir Jonathan Phillips, Knt., and Ann Amy.

The design criteria are evaluated on the basis of stress assession, which are the nature constraint conditions for optimum design .

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