Assignatus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. and L. Lat. [from aasignare, q. v.] An assignee.
Taions, PL 28.
A person assigned or appointed to a particular duty. Ad placita tenenda assigna- Us; assigned to hold pleas.
Reg, Orig. 68 b.
In the civil law. A person assigned or set over to another, as a freedman to a particular child.
Inst 3. 9.