assessions

Noun

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.
   • 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."1971, Legislative History of the Committee on Foreign Relations, page 28
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).
   • 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...1827, James Manning, The Practice of the Court of Exchequer, page 391
3. The act of assessment.
   • The design criteria are evaluated on the basis of stress assession, which are the nature constraint conditions for optimum design .1981, R. I. Jetter, Metallic Bellows and Expansion Joints - Volume 3, page 76