Law Dictionary

To rate or fix the proportion which every person has to pay of any particular tax. To tax. To adjust the shares of a contribution by several towards a common beneficial object, acc

asses, I. fr. Assessed; afifeered.

Where the charter of a corporation provides for the payment by it of a state tax, and contains a proviso that "no other tax or impost shall be levied or assessed upon the said comp

little more than the calculation or recording of a tax liability.

Assessment agreement.—The term “assessment agreement” means an agreement, whether part of a collective bargaining agreement or negotiated separately, to the extent the agreement pr

In life insurance. A company in which a death loss is met by levying an assessment on the surviving members of the association. Mutual Ben. It. Ins. Co. v. Marye, 85 Va. 643, 8 S.

One wherein the payment of the benefit is in any manner or degree dependent on the collection of an assessment levied on persons holding similar contracts. Folkens v. Insurance Co.

In taxation. Any subdivision of territory, whether the whole or part of any municipality, in which by law a separate assessment of taxable property is made by the officers elected

The term "assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs" means, as appropriate in each case— (A) (i) a review of existing data— (I) to determ

The assessment fund of a mutual benefit association is the balance of the assessments, less expenses, out of which beneficiaries are paid. Kerr v. Ben. Ass'n, 39 Minn. 174, 39 N. W

the term “assessment jurisdiction” means a geographical area in a State used in determining the assessed value of property for ad valorem taxation; / Assessment jurisdiction.—The t

A failure to comply with the annual assessment labor requirement does not ipso facto forfeit the claim, but only renders it subject to loss by relocation. And the law is clear that

In practice. The fixmg or settling by a court or jury, of the amount of damages to be paid by the defendant or defeated party in an. action. Assessment by the court is either made

The assessment was not a judicial, but a ministerial act, and as the assessors exceeded their powers in making it, the officer is not protected.

The order levying the assessment is made conclusive as to all matters relating to the amount and propriety thereof, and the necessity therefor; it is thus conclusive, although the

The term “assessment program” means the water availability and use assessment program established by the Secretary under section 10368(a) of this title .

In taxation, the list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors. Bank v. Genoa, 28 Misc. Rep. 71, 59 N. Y. Supp. 829; Adams v. Br

The list or roll of taxable persons and property, completed, verified, and deposited by the assessors, not as it appears after review and equalization. Bank v. Genoa, 28 Misc. Rep.

Under the mining laws of the United States, the holder of an unpatented mining claim on the public domain is required, in order to hold his claim, to do labar or make improvements

One whose function is to make an assessment.

An officer chosen or appointed

^c?*e««)re». Lat. [from (Mnrf«*tf,to8itby.] In the civil law. Persons who sat with the Roman praetor, or other magistrate, for the purpose of assisting him with their advice in the

Those appointed to make assessments. rin Civil and Scotch Law. Persons skilled in law, selected to advise the judges of the inferior courts. Bell, Diet.; Dig. 1. 22; Code, 1. 51. A

The terms “protective factor”, “buffer”, and “asset” mean any one of a number of the community, school, family, or peer-individual domains that are known, through prospective, long

The term “asset-backed security”— (A) means a fixed-income or other security collateralized by any type of self-liquidating financial asset (including a loan, a lease, a mortgage,

The term “asset concession” means a contract between an eligible entity and a concessionaire— (A) under which— (i) the eligible entity agrees to enter into a concession agreement o

The term “asset concession payment” means a payment that— (A) is made by a concessionaire to an eligible entity for fair market value that is determined as part of the asset conces

The term “asset control area” means the area established by a preferred purchaser pursuant to paragraph (4)(B)(i).

For purposes of subparagraph (C)(v), the term “asset exchange or conversion transaction” means any voluntary exchange or involuntary conversion of any property related to generatin

The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysi

The term "Asset Management Report" means— (A) the annual plan prepared by the Bureau known as the "Asset Management Plan"; and (B) any publicly available inform

The term “asset property” means— (i) with respect to an eligible asset that is a property, such property; and (ii) with respect to an eligible asset that is a mortgage, the propert

The term "asset response activity" means an activity to support an entity impacted by an incident with the response to, remediation of, or recovery from, the incident, in

The term “assets” includes contracts, facilities, property, records, unobligated or unexpended balances of appropriations, and other funds or resources (other than personnel). / Th

The term “asset sale” means the sale to the public of any asset (except for those assets covered by title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 [ 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.]), whethe

Assets in hand.

Property which descends to the heir and not to the executor.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “assets under management” means the securities portfolios with respect to which an investment adviser provides continuous and regular supe

The proof which a man gives of the truth of what he says, by appealing to his conscie^ice as a witness. It differs from an oath in this, that by the latter he appeals to God as a w

To draw or drain water from marsh grounds.—Cowell.

I. In the Roman law. To act as an assessor, v. Assessor.

To make or set over to another. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 326; 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 391. To appoint; to select; to allot. 3 Bl. Comm. 58. To set forth; to point out; as, to assign errors. Fi

An assignee; a person to whom property or a right or interest is transferred by another. Now rarely used, though the plural assigns is still retained in deeds and other instruments

The bonds intended by the legislature were most clearly such as were to become void on the payment of a sum certain, and where no intervention or assessment of a jury was necessary

That may be assigned or transferred; transferable; negotiable, as a bill of exchange. Co.mb. 176; Story, Bllls, § 17.

I. In the civil law. To assign, allot or appoint Assignare libertum: to assign a freedman to a particular child.

I. I. To assign; to transfer or make over; to allot, appoint or designate; to mark out, set off, allot or set over: as, a widow's dower. Assignavimus vos justitiarios nostros, ad i

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