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Webster 1913 Edition
Assignment
As-sign′ment
,Noun.
[LL.
assignamentum
: cf. OF. assenement
.] 1.
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
2.
(Law)
(a)
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
(b)
The writing by which an interest is transferred.
(c)
The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
Assignment of dower
, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow’s thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.
☞ Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assignment
ASSI'GNMENT
, n.1.
An allotting, or an appointment to a particular person or use.2.
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of a lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange.3.
The writing by which an interest is transferred.4.
The appointment or designation of causes or actions in court, for trial on particular days.5.
In law, the conveyance of the whole interest which a man has in an estate, usually for life or year. It differs from a lease, which is the conveyance of a less term than the lessor has in the estate.