assignment

A transfer of rights in real property or Personal Property to another that gives the recipient—the transferee—the rights that the owner or holder of the property—the transferor—had prior to the transfer.

An assignment of wages is the transfer of the right to collect wages from the wage earner to his or her creditor. Statutes regulate the extent to which an assignment may be made.

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assignment n. the act of transferring an interest in property or a some right (such as contract benefits) to another. It is used commonly by lawyers, accountants, business people, title companies and others dealing with property. (See: assign)

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assignment (Allotment), noun allocation, allowance, apportionment, appropriation, assignation, dispensation, distribution, division, partition, portion
Associated concepts: assignment of choses in action

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assignment (Designation), noun appointment, commission, delegation, deputation, mandate, nomination, placing in office, prescription, selection, specification, stipulation
Associated concepts: assignment of error

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assignment (Task), noun business, charge, chore, commission, duty, function, mission, part, pursuit, role, stint, work

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assignment (Transfer of ownership), noun alienation, assignation, cession, conferment, consignation, consignment, conveyance, delivery, demise, devolvement, disposition, distribution, grant, impropriation, mutual transfer, relegation, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal
Associated concepts: assignment by operation of law, assignment for the benefit of creditors, assignment for value, assignment of a cause of action, assignment of a chose in action, assignment of an account, assignment of claim, assignment of dower, assignment of lease, assignment of rents and profits, assignment of wages, consignment, gennral assignment, lease, license, partial assignment, promise to make assignment, voluntary assignment
Foreign phrases: Assignatus utitur jure auctoris.An assignee is clothed with the right of his principal.

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See also: activity, agency, alienation, allotment, appointment, apportionment, arrogation, assignation, attribution, blame, burden, cession, charge, choice, citation, classification, commitment, consignment, conveyance, deed, department, deputation, designation, devolution, dispensation, disposition, distribution, duty, employment, function, job, labor, mission, nomination, obligation, occupation, position, project, province, quota, ration, reference, responsibility, role, selection, specification, trade, work

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ASSIGNMENT, contracts. In common parlance this word signifies the transfer of all kinds of property, real, personal, and mixed, and whether the same be in possession or in action; as, a general assignment. In a more technical sense it Is usually applied to the transfer of a term for years; but it is more properly used to signify a transfer of some particular estate or interest in lands.
     2. The proper technical words of an assignment are, assign, transfer, and set over; but the words grant, bargain, and sell, or any other words which will show the intent of the parties to make a complete transfer, will amount to an assignment.
     3. A chose in action cannot be assigned at law, though it may be done in equity; but the assignee takes it subject to all the equity to which it was liable in the hands of the original party. 2 John. Ch. Rep. 443, and the cases there cited. 2 Wash. Rep. 233.
     4. The deed by which an assignment is made,, is also called an assignment. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t. Vin. Ab. h.t.; Nelson's Ab. h.t.; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2612. In relation to general assignments, see Angell on Assignments, passim; 1 Hate & Wall. Sel. Dec. 78- 85.
     5. By an assignment of a right all the accessories which belong to it, will pass with it as, if the assignor of a bond had collateral security, or a lien on property, the collateral security and the lien will pass with the assignment of the bond. 2 Penn. 361; 3 Bibb, 291; 4 B. Munroe, 529; 2 Drev. n. 218; 1 P. St. R. 454. 6. The assignment of a thing also carries with it all that belongs to it by right of accession; if, therefore, the thing produce interest or rent, the interest or the arrearages of the rent since the assignment, will belong to the assignee. 7 John. Cas. 90 6 Pick. 360.