Assienʹto Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]
 Contracts entered into by Spain with Portugal, France, and England, to supply her South American colonies with negro slaves. England joined in 1713, after the peace of Utrecht.
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	      Entry taken from
	      Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
	      edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.