assession

From Latin assessio. See sit.

assession (plural assessions)

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.
   • 1971, Legislative History of the Committee on Foreign Relations, page 28:

     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."

   • 1996, Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management, page 1421:

     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.

   • 2011, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, page 493:

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

   • 2023, Jacek Gordon, English in Law:

     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.

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).
   • 1827, James Manning, The Practice of the Court of Exchequer, page 391:

     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.

   • 1876, Arundel Rogers, The Law Relating to Mines, Minerals, and Quarries in Great Britain and Ireland, page 207:

     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.

   • 1879, Sir John Maclean ·, The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor:

     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.

3. The act of assessment.
   • 1981, R. I. Jetter, Metallic Bellows and Expansion Joints - Volume 3, page 76:

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

   • 1989, Soviet Yearbook of Maritime Law, page 122:

     Attention was paid to serious problems arising at the assession of the stocks due to the worsening of report data on the catches and other statistical information on some basic harvesting areas.

   • 1993, Douglas Campbell, “Engineer, bring Me a Map!”, in The Engineer, numbers 1-1994, page 29:

     It should address four key areas: the topographic engineer task list, a developmental plan for that task list, key positions requiring special training, and key assession standards for engineers.

   • 1995, Baltic News, page 4:

     The bank systems in both countries are still frail and the recurrent crisis of banks point at the lack of experience in risk assession.·

4. Misspelling of accession.
   • 1976, Larry Lorenzo Smith, Crisis Intervention Theory and Practice, page 74:

     The category "dismemberment only" would include such crises as the death of a child, spouse, or parent while the category of "assession only" includes crisis situations like an unwanted pregnancy, some adoptions, or an aged relative's coming to live with a family.

   • 1981, Elizabeth Bright, A Lasting Splendor, page 174:

     Since May and the assession of King George to the throne, we have observed a truce, hoping that in a spirit of goodwill the government would give priority to a bill for women's suffrage.

   • 1982, China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, page 1:

     From his assession to the presidency up to April this year, Mubarak has mainly devoted his efforts to foreign policy in order to assure recovery of the Sinai .