act of associating, or constituting a society, or partnership, in order to carry on some scheme or affair with more advantage.—The word is Latin, associationem, and compounded of ad, to, and socia, to join.

Association of Ideas, is where two or more ideas constantly and immediately follow one another, so that the one shall almost infallibly produce the other.

Assolzie, in law, to absolve, or free.