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General assignment

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A debtor’s transfer of all his property in trust for the benefit of all of his creditors. See 85 N. Y. 516, 39 Am. Rep. 674.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An assignment of all one’s property for the benefit of his creditors; it necessarily Includes an assignee who shall by the terms of the Instrument, or as an inference from those terms, take as a trustee for the creditors. Tompkins v. Bank, 18 N. Y. Supp. 234. See Assignment.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An assignment made for the benefit of all the assignor's creditors, instead of a few only; or one which transfers the whole of his estate to the assignee, instead of a part only. Royer Wheel Co. v. Fielding, 101 N. Y 504, 5 N. E. 431; Halsey v. Co.nnell, 111 Ala. 221. 20 South. 445; Mussey v. Noyes, 26 Vt. 471,

Defined under Assignment in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

An assignment made for the benefit of ald the assignor’s creditors, instead of a few only; or one which transfers the whole of his estate to the assigaee, instead of a part only.