Assurance

[Fr. See ASSURE.] Firm persuasion; certain expectation; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt. "A religious life gives the comfortable a urance of God's favor."- Til lots on . -Ground of confidence; sufficient reason for trust or belief; certainty. "Whereof he hath given a urance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."- Acts xvii. 31. -Firmne of mind; undoubting steadine . - Spirit; intrepidity. "With all the a urance innocence can bring, Fearle without, because secure within."-Dryden. -Want of modesty; impudence; as, "his a urance is intolerable." -Insurance; but only applied to a contract of indemnity for life contingencies. (Law.) Any instrument which confirms the title to an estate. In a general sense, the word a urance includes all legal evidences of the translation of property, called common a urances, by which every man's property is secured to him, and controversies, doubts, and difficulties prevented and removed.