What is ASSUME? Definition of ASSUME in Black's Law Dictionary
To pretend. To undertake; engage; promise. 1 Ld.Raym. 122; 4 Coke, 92; Hopkins v. Erskine, 118 Me. 276, 107 A. 829, 830. To take to or upon one's self. Springer v. De Wolf, 194 Ill. 218, 62 N.E. 542, 56 L.R.A. 465, 88 Am.St.Rep. 155; Anicker v. Doyle, 84 Okl. 62, 202 P. 281, 284; Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania v. Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, 119 Pa.Super. 292, 181 A. 73, 74. Also taking up, receiving, adopting, taking to oneself, or to put on deceitfully, take appearance of, affect, or outwardly seem. Nickell v. State, 205 Wis. 614, 238 N.W. 508, 510. To take on, become bound as another is bound, or put oneself in place of another as to an obligation or liability. Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Texas & P. Ry. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 129 S.W.2d 746, 749.
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