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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.
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)
assignment
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.