Assign

' To point out, specify, signify which of several things; to select, appoint, fix. Whence assignable, assignment.

— As, to assign — the particular in which a ' [Silk V. Prime, 2 L. Cas. Eq., 4 Am. ed., 358, 353, oases. " Oatlin V. Eagle Ba,nk, 6 Conn. 243 (1826), Hosmer, C. J. See also Freedman's Sav. & Trust Co. v. Earle, llOU. S. 712-20 (1884); 2 Johns. Ch. 677. » [2 Bl. Com. 244, 340, 510.] * 4 Kent, 354. » Hall II. Martin, 46 N. H. 341 (1865). » Wayman v. Halstead, 109 U. S. 656 (1884), cases. contract has been broken, that is, "the breach; " the matter in which alleged error was committed by an auditor, master, referee, com-t; dower, or the third of the deceased husband's realty; counsel for a prisoner on trial; a day for a hearing, trial, argument. Assignment of errors. A pleading filed in an appellate court by a party who complains of errors committed by the cdurt below. 1 See Error, 2 (3). ' New or novel assignment. When a plaintiff in his replication, after an evasive plea, reduces a general wrong, as laid in his declaration, to a more particular certainty, by assigning the injury afresh, with all its specific circumstances, in such manner as clearly to ascertain and identify it, consistently with his general complaint. ^ Not an admission of the facts alleged in the plea; merely an assertion that the plaintiff will not investigate the subject-matter. ' 2. To set over something to another person;

— to transfer, convey.

Generally implies a writing

It is of all the right one has in any particular piece or pieces of property.* Compare Lease. The meanings vary with the subject-matter, but the general one is to set over or to transfer. As applied to movables, satisfied by a delivery.^ Assignable. Subject to lawful transfer; also, so transferable as to vest a right of action.* Opposed, non-assignable.

Assignor.

He who transfers property to another person. * Assignee. He to whom property is transferred; more particularly he to whom an insolvent or a bankrupt makes over his whole estate for the benefit of his creditors. In patent law one who has transferred to him in writing the whole interest of the original patent or any undivided part of siich whole interest, in every portion of the United States.

Compare Grantee (2); Licensee, 2.

In strict legal parlance does not designate an "indorsee " of paper.' Assignee in fact. A person made an assignee by the act of another.

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