Assigns

Nearly or quite synonymous with assignees, but now confined to conveyancing. Where a grantor covenants for himself, his executors, administrators and assigns, the word means any person to whom the property or interest described in the deed may happen at any future time to be assigned, either by deed or by operation of law; and it includes not only assignees, properly so called, but executors and administrators, the assignee of an assignee in perpetuum, the heir of an assignee, the assignee of an heir, the assignee of an assignee's executor, and a devisee, but not involuntary assignees, as assignees in bankruptcy. In a policy of insurance it means one who becomes the assignee of the policy, with the assent of the insurer, not any one who takes an interest in the property from the insured.