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assession|əˈsɛʃən|
[ad. L. assessiōn-em, n. of action f. assess- ppl. stem of assidēre: see assess. Cf. (in sense 2) AF. assesseaunce.]
1. A sitting beside or together; a session.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 374 b, Whome he commaunded that..in the assession..they shoulde exhibite the confession of the doctrine wrytten. 1731in Bailey. 1852Bp. Forbes Nicene Creed 11 Of His Assession, that He ‘sitteth at the right hand of the Father.’
†2. = assessment. Spec. In the Duchy of Cornwall, the action of assessing and letting to rent the lord's demesnes, which was done at a court held for the purpose; also attrib. in assession-court, assession-roll. Also aˈssessioning vbl. n. and ppl. a.; assessionable |əˈsɛʃənəb(ə)l| a., occas. aˈssessional a., applied to seventeen manors of the Duchy in which the lands were let by courts of assession. Obs.
1447–8J. Shillingford Lett. (1871) 98 The tenants of his saide fee were not warned to come..to the assession therof. 1820J. Scarlett in G. Concanen Rep. Rowe v. Brenton (1830) App. 77 There is no custom stated for the free tenants to attend the assession-court, only the conventionaries. 1820Brougham Ibid., They have done enough to differ the present case, of tendering the assession-roll, from the circumstances under which it was tendered before. 1828Barnewall & Cresswell Rep. King's Bench VIII. 740 The seventeen manors hereafter mentioned as assessionable manors. Ibid. 750 A roll called an Assession Roll, which purported to be an account of the acts done by certain assessors in the 7 Edw. 3., under a commission to them by John Earl of Cornwall. 1830G. Concanen Rep. Rowe v. Brenton (title), The right to minerals in the assessional lands of the duchy of Cornwall. Ibid. Introd. 23 The mode of letting the lands of the assessional manors by the assessioning commissioners. Ibid., The assessioning of the same manors occurred at intervals of less than seven years. Ibid. 36 The conventionary tenants of the seventeen assessionable manors of the Duchy. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 390/1 The courts..were called assessions, or courts of assession. The course usually was to let the land until the next assession. 1848Act 11 & 12 Vict. c. 83 (title) An Act to confirm the Awards of Assessionable Manors Commissioners. |