Assignee
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A person to whom an assignment is made. The term is commonly used in reference to personal property; but it is not incorrect, in some cases, to apply it to Tealty, ¢. 9., “assignee of the reversion.” Assignee in fact is one to whom an assignment has been made in fact by the party haying the right, Assignee in faw is one in whom the law vests the right; as an executor or administrator. The word has a special and distinclive use as employed to designale one to whom, under an insolvent or bankrupt law, the whole estale of a debtor is transferred to be administered for the benefit of creditors. In old law. <A person deputed or appointed by another to do any act, or perform any business.
Blount.
An assignee, however, Was distinguished from a deputy, being said to occupy # thing in hisown right, while a deputy acted in right of another.
Cowell.