Assign

To make or set over to another. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 326; 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 391. To appoint; to select; to allot. 3 Bl. Comm. 58. To set forth; to point out; as, to assign errors. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 19.

To make or set over to another. 2 Bla. Com. 320; Watkinson v. Inglesby, 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 391. To appoint; to select; to allot. 3 Bla. Com. 58. To set forth; to point out; as, to assign errors. Fitzherbert, Nat. Brev. 19.

v. In conveyancing. To make or set over to another ; to transfer; as to assign property or some interest therein. Cowell ; 2 Bl. Comm. 326; Bump v. Van Orsdale, II Barb. (N. Y.) 638; Hoag v. Mendenhall, 19 Minn. 336 (Gil. 289).

In practice. To appoint, allot, select, or designate for a particular purpose, or duty. Thus, in England, justices are said to be "assigned to take the assises," "assigned to hold pleas," "assigned to make gaol delivery," "assigned to keep the peace," etc. St. Westm. 2, c. 30; Reg. Orig. 68, 69; 3 Bl. Comm. 58, 59, 353; 1 Bl. Comm. 351. To transfer persons, as a sheriff is said to assign prisoners in his custody. . To point at, or point out; to set fojth, or specify; to mark out or designate; asj to assign errors on a writ of error; to 'assign breaches of a covenant. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1168; 1 Tidd, 686.

To transfer, to make or set over: as, to assign property or some interest therein, or to assign prisoners in custody. To appoint or designate for a particular purpose or duty; as, to assign judges to take the assises, to hold pleas, to make gaol delivery, to keep the peace, etc., to assign a prisoner counseL To appoint a time: as, to assign a day. To point out; to set forth or specify; to mark out or designate: as, to assign errors; to assign breaches of a covenant; to assign false judgment; to assign waste; to assign a perjury.

vo. Inconveyancing. To make or set over to another; to transfer; as to asign property, or some interest therein. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 826. In practice. ‘To appoint, allot, select, or Thus, in England, justices ara said to be “assiyned to take the assises,” “assigned to hold pleas,” “assigned to make gaol delivery,” “assigned to keep the peace,” etc, St. Westm. 2, c. 30; Reg. Orig. 68, 69; 3 Bl. Comm. 58, 59, 358; 1 Bi, Comm. 351. To transfer persons, as a sheriff ig said to assign prisoners in his custody. To point at, or point out; to set forth, or specify; to mark out or designate; as to wzssign errors on a writ of error; to assign breaches of acovenant. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1168; 1 Tidd, 686.

' 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. I [Associates of the Jersey Company v. Davison, 29

[L. Fr. assigne; L. Lat. a*signatus."] Used formerly in the sense of assignee, but now obsolete. 1 Stra. 460. The plural assigns is still retained in deeds, bonds and other instruments. See Assignee, Assigns.