I. Lit. (acc. to 2. assero, I. A.), a formal declaration that one is a freeman or a slave: “adsertio tam a servitute in libertatem, quam a libertate in servitium trahi significat,” Prisc. p. 1208 P.; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 72 fin.: “perfusoriae adsertiones,” unauthorized declarations of freedom, Suet. Dom. 8: “sitne liber qui est in adsertione,” Quint. 3, 6, 57: “ut in reis deportatis et adsertione secundā (i. e. judicio secundo, in quo adsertor de libertate agit),” id. 5, 2, 1; so also id. 11, 1, 78; cf. Cod. Just. 7, 17, 1.—
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assertĭo (ads- ), ōnis, f. 2. assero.