adsumptivus

assumptīvus ( ads- ), a, um, adj. [id.], taken in addition: causa, t. t. of law, which takes the defence of an action from an extraneous cause, assumptive, extrinsic:

juridicalis (causa) in duas tribuitur partes, absolutam et adsumptivam,

Cic. Inv. 1, 11; 2, 24; Auct. ad Her. 1, 14; cf. Quint. 7, 4, 7; Mart. Cap. 5, p. 146; Isid. Orig. 2, 5, 5.—

* Adv.: assumptīvē, Mart. Cap. 5, p. 147 dub.