Law Dictionary

Lat. In old practice and conveyancing. To assign; to transfer or make over. Cui terram illam dare vel assignare voluerit; to whom he will give or assign that land. Bract, fol. 17 b

In Scotch law. Assignment, (q. V.) ASSIGNATUS UTITUR JURE AUCTOris. An assignor is clothed with the rights of his principal. Halk. Max. 14; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 416, 41

Lat. [plur. of oww^matus, q. v.] Assigns; assignees. Bract, fol. 20, 21, 37 b. See Assigns. ^ ASSIGNATIO; Lat. and L. Lat. [from assignare, q. v.] An assigning or assignment. Inst.

I. In the civil and old English law. An assigning or assigntnent. Asslgnatlo dotis: assignment of dower.

I In old English law. An assignee, or assign. A person assigned or appointed to a particular duty. Assignatas ntitur jure aoctoris: an assignee uses the right of Iiis principal; an

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. Re

An assignee is clothed with the rights of his assignor.

or ASSIGNEY. In Scotch law. An assignee. "Airis and Assignais," 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. p. 342; "Aires or Assig-

(Scotch) An assignee.

cars placed for use at a specified mine for a particular shipper

The term “assigned operator” means, with respect to an eligible beneficiary defined in section 9703(f), the signatory operator to which liability under subchapter B with respect to

An assignee is one who holds, by a valid assignment in writing, the whole interest of a patent, or any undivided part of such whole interest, throughout the United States.

Assiner, Assener, L. Fr. ^ assign. L. Fr, Diet, Kelham,

The assignee is the representative of the creditors as well as the bankrupt.

The Court decided, that a suit could be maintained in equity by the holder of an indorsed note against a remote indorser; and upon grounds perfectly familiar to courts exercising e

No district or circuit court shall have cognisance of any suit to cover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favour of an assignee, unless a suit might

notice cannot be established by the mere fact that, while the appellees held an interest in the policies only, they were assignees of choses in action, and took them subject to the

The assignee is not bound to run a race against time, or to use extraordinary means; that he is not required to prosecute a drawer or obligor farther than a man of ordinary prudenc

assignment, 2. /r. Assignment; an assignment.

assiner, assener, I. fr. To assign. Assigner faux serement: to assign perjury.

“Assignment” includes any direct or indirect transfer or hypothecation of a contract or chose in action by the assignor, or of a controlling block of the assignor's outstanding vot

The assignee cannot maintain an action on the mere non-payment of the note and notice thereof, or of a protest to the assignor, until the holder of the note has made use of all due

The act of Congress to prevent frauds upon the treasury of the United States applies only to cases of voluntary assignment of demands against the government. It does not embrace ca

A transfer of his property by a debtor to another for administration and distribution to his creditors. See 133 111. 45, 24 N. E. 74.

an assignment for the benefit of preferred creditors is valid, although their assent is not given at the time of its execution; if they subsequently accept in terms, or by actually

This assignment having passed, not a legal, but an equitable right to a chose in action, was subject to the same equity in the hands of the Holland company, as it was in the hands

The assignment of the beneficial interest is not the assignment of a chose in action but of the 'right, title, and estate in and to property.

Bonds, and Promissory Notes in writing, stood on the same footing at common law; and... the assignment of those instruments, as well as the form, operation, and effect of such assi

Courts of law, following in this respect the rules of equity, now take notice of assignments of choses in action, and exert themselves to afford them every support and protection n

Notwithstanding the strictness, particularly in the earlier cases in the courts of common law, with respect to assignments of equitable interests and choses in action, the books ab

All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be t

The act by which the share of a widow in her deceased husband's real estate is ascertained and set apart to her. The assignment may be made in pais by the heir or his guardian, or

In practice. The statement of the case of the plaintiff in error on a writ of error setting forth the errors complained of. It corresponds with the declaration in an ordinary actio

When a person assigns future wages, he, in effect, pledges his future earning power. The power of the individual to earn a living for himself and those dependent upon him is in the

no distinction can be taken according to the motives leading to the arrangement by which the fruits are attributed to a different tree from that on which they grew

The utmost extent of its acquisition was an interest in the surplus, if any, which might remain after all debts of the firm should be paid, and after the liabilities of Graham to h

This is a question essentially depending upon the intention of the parties to be gathered from the terms of the assignment; for whatever may be the inaccuracy of expression, or the

When an assignment is made of a plat and certificate of survey, the purchaser takes it subject to the risk of its containing a less quantity than is expressed on its face, and shou

In the absence of all evidence to the contrary, in case of an absolute assignment of property by a debtor to his creditor for the purpose of securing a pre-existing debt, an assent

That section was not enacted to give increased pay for the discharge of the ordinary duties of the service, but to give compensation for the greater risk and responsibility of acti

An assignment for the benefit of creditors, with directions to the assignee to prefer a specified creditor or class of creditors, by paying their clnims in full before the others r

One who makes an assign-

an assignor of a patent right is estopped to attack the utility, novelty or validity of a patented invention which he has assigned or granted as against any one claiming the right

one in the company's situation, if only the arrangement between it and Stoiber was not forbidden by law.

L In feudal law. To assault; to attack.

Same as Assize.

A statute ordering the keeping arms.

To be nonsuited. Cowell; 3 Bl. Comm. 402.

The assize is turned into a jury.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury.

A writ for the continuation of the assize to allow the production of papers. Reg. Orig. 217.

The statute of Clarendon, passed 10 Hen. II., allowing an additional time for preparation to persons compelled to abjure the realm. See "Abjuration."

Assize of the forest (q. V.) ASSISA DE MENSURIS (Law Lat.) Assize of measures. A common rule for weights and measures, established throughout England by Richard L, in tiie eighth y

A regulation of weights and measures in 1198.

Assize of nuisance. In old English practice, a writ which lay to remove a nuisance, and recover damages. 3 Bl. Comm. 221, 222; Reg. Orig. 197b. Now abolished with the other real ac

An assise of nuisance ; a writ to abate or redress a nuisance.

A writ for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated its land and rents.— Black.

Assize ot fresh force (g. v.) ASSISA MORTIS ANTECESSORIS (Law Lat.) Assise of mort d'ancestor (q. v.) Bracton, lib. 4, tr. 3; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 1; Id. lib. 5, c. 1. Called, also, a

Assise of fresh force, which see.

Assise of fresh force, which see.,

Assize of utrum, which see.

Lat. [L. Fr. assise, assis.'j In old English law and practice. An assise; a species of jury or inquest. Assisavenit recognitura, or ad recognoscendum; the assise comes, or came to

Assize of mort d'ancestor (q. v.)

Assise of darrein presentment, (q. v.)

Assize of novel disseisin {q. v.) ASSISA PAN IS ET CEREVISLAE (Law Lat.) Assize of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fiftyfirst year of Henry III., contai

Assise of novel disseisin, which see.

Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the "st

A statute regulating bread and ale measures.

Assise of bread and ale, or beer. The name of astatute passed in the fifty-first year of Uenry III., containing regulations for the sale of bread and ale; sometimes called the “sta

A writ to stay proceedings where one of the parties is engaged in a suit of the king. Reg. Orig. 208.

I. I. In old English law.

Assize of darrein presentment.

Statutes regulating the sale of certain articles. Spelman.

Assize.

assize. In English law. A species a certain number of men, usually and who sit together for that purpose and petite, v. Grand assise; Petite action to determine the right of posses

or ASSIZE. 1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a

Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw, I., defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Law, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 184.

Fr. Situated. De la ville ou son castle est assise; of the town where his castle is situated. SteU. Westm. 1, c. 7. See Assistis.

.See Assisa.

A writ of assise which formerly lay when a man or his ancestors under whom he claimed presented a clerk to a benefice, who was instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance,

In old English practice. A writ which lay by the usage and custom of a city or borough, where a man was disseised of his lands and tenements in such city or borough. It was called

A real action which lay to recover land of which a person bad been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger. 3 Bl. Comm. 185; Co.. litt. 15

A writ of assise which lay for the recovery of lands or tenements, where the claimant had been lately disseised.

A writ of assise which lay where a nuisance had been committed to the complainant's freehold ; either for abatement of the nnisance or for damages.

A statute touching orders to be observed in the king's forests. Manwood, 35.

1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, uho were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, excep

An assessor; juror; an officer who has the care and oversight of weights and measures.

The certain established rents of the freeholders and ancient copyholders of a manor; so called because they are asstsed, or made precise and certain.

assizes. In English law. Sessions of court of assise or assize and nisi prius, formerly held by two or more commissioners called judges of assise, or of assise and nisi prius, who

A real action which lay to recover land of LTE which a person had been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger. 3 Bl. Comm. 185; Co. Litt.

A writ of assise which lay for the recovery of lands or tenements, where the claimant had been lately disseised.

1. 1. Anciently, persons who settled assises, or imposed taxes.

Lat. [from assidere, to assess.] In old law. Persons who settied assises, or imposed taxes. Spelman, Hence probably the modem assessors,

In Scotch law. Jurors.

The term “assist” means any of the following if supplied directly or indirectly, and free of charge or at reduced cost, by the buyer of imported merchandise for use in connection w

The term “assistance” means the direct provision of any course of advanced education by the Secretary concerned, reimbursement by the Secretary concerned for any course of advanced

The term “assistance from the State” means— (A) assistance under the State program funded under part A or under the State plan approved under part A of this subchapter (as in effec

The denial of opportunity for appointed counsel to confer, to consult with the accused and to prepare his defense, could convert the appointment of counsel into a sham and nothing

“assistance program” means a program of the United States Government providing assistance through a grant or contract but does not include revenue sharing, a loan, a loan guarantee

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “assistance to Cuba”— (A) means assistance to or for the benefit of the Government of Cuba that is provided by grant, concessional sale, gua