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assessable security.See SECURITY.[Blacks Law 8th]

assessable   policy.1.INSURANCE   POLICY.   2.   See   assessable   insurance   (1)   under INSURANCE.[Blacks Law 8th]

assessable  insurance.1.INSURANCE.  2.  See  assessable  policy  (1)  under  INSURANCE POLICY.[Blacks Law 8th]

assertory oath (<<schwa>>-s<<schwa>>r-t<<schwa>>-ree). See OATH.[Blacks Law 8th]

assertory covenant.See COVENANT(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

assertive  question.Civil  law.  A  question  asked  of  a  witness  at  a  criminal  trial,  by  which inadmissible  evidence  is  sought,  to  provide  the  jury  with  details  regarding  another  crime.  Cf. INTERROGATIVE QUESTION.[Blacks Law 8th]

assertive conduct.See CONDUCT.[Blacks Law 8th]

assertion,n.1. A declaration or allegation. 2. A person’s speaking, writing, acting, or failing to act  with  the  intent  of  expressing  a  fact  or  opinion;  the  act  or  an  instance  of  engaging  in communicative behavior. See assertive conduct under CONDUCT.[Blacks Law 8th]

assert,vb.1. To state positively. 2. To invoke or enforce (a legal right). — assertor,n.[Blacks Law 8th]

assenting-silence  doctrine.The  principle  that  an  accusation  will  be  taken  as  true,  despite silence by the accused, if the accusation was  made  under circumstances in  which silence can be fairly said to be an agreement. • This doctrine is usu. held to be invalid as a measure of a criminal defendant’s guilt. [Cases: Criminal Law    407.…