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(noun) laying claim
the act of taking possession of or power over something
his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba; the Nazi assumption of power in 1934; he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts
(noun) presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
he despised them for their presumptuousness
(noun) supposal, supposition
a hypothesis that is taken for granted
any society is built upon certain assumptions
a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play
(noun) Assumption
(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
(noun) Assumption, Assumption of Mary, August 15
celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church