One wherein the payment of the benefit is in any manner or degree dependent on the collection of an assessment levied on persons holding similar contracts. … [Read more...]

Criminal law; the attack of another person with the intent of forcible sexual intercourse against the will of the victim. … [Read more...]

After an interlocutory judgment has been obtained, the damages must be, ascertained; the act of thus fixing the amount of damages is called the assessment of damages. 2. In cases sounding in damages, that is, when the object of the action is to recover damages only, and not brought for the specific recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money, the usual course is to issue a writ … [Read more...]

The proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of metals,particularly of the precious metals, gold and silver. A trial of weights and measures by a standard; as by the constituted authorities, clerks of markets, etc. Reg. Orig. 280. A trial or examination of certain commodities, as bread, cloths, etc. Cowell; Blount Assay office. The staff of persons by … [Read more...]

One whose business it is to make assays of the precious metals. Assayer of the king. An officer of the royal mint, appointed by St 2 Hen. VI. c. 12. who received and tested the bullion taken in for coining; also called "assayator regis" Cowell ; Termes de la Ley. … [Read more...]