LAYING CLAIM

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : assumption

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