| Assign |
v. t. |
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. |
| Assign |
v. t. |
To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. |
| Assign |
v. t. |
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. |
| Assign |
v. |
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. |
| Assign |
n. |
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns. |
| ASsign |
v. i. |
To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust. |
| Assignability |
n. |
The quality of being assignable. |
| Assignable |
a. |
Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity. |
| Assignat |
n. |
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state. |
| Assignation |
n. |
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. |
| Assignation |
n. |
An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview;
used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. |
| Assignation |
n. |
A making over by transfer of title; assignment. |
| Assigned |
imp. & p. p. |
of Assign |
| Assignee |
v. |
A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. |
| Assignee |
v. |
In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. |
| Assigner |
n. |
One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions. |
| Assigning |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Assign |
| Assignment |
n. |
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. |
| Assignment |
n. |
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands. |
| Assignment |
n. |
The writing by which an interest is transferred. |
| Assignment |
n. |
The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. |
| Assignor |
n. |
An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action. |
