5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
ASsign \AS*sign"\, v. i. (Law)
To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the
benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in
furtherance of some trust.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assign \As*sign"\, n. [See {Assignee}.] (Law)
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as
a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assigned}; p. pr & vb
n. {Assigning}.] [OE. assignen, asignen F. assigner, fr L.
assignare ad + signare to mark, mark out designate, signum
mark, sign. See {Sign}.]
1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over
In the order I assign to them --Loudon.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
station than that in which his lot had been
assigned. --Southey.
He assigned to his men their several posts.
--Prescott.
2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out
authoritatively or exactly; as to assign a limit; to
assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
--De Quincey.
3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to
transfer to and vest in certain persons, called
assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
{To assign dower}, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
share or portion in an estate. --Kent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assign \As*sign"\, n. [From {Assign}, v.]
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an
appurtenance. [Obs.]
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as
girdles, hangers, and so --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
assign
v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post or assign a task
to (a person) [syn: {delegate}, {designate}, {depute}]
2: give out "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: {allot}, {portion}]
3: attribute to a source or cause "We attributed this
quotation to Shakespeare" [syn: {impute}, {ascribe}, {attribute}]
4: select something or someone for a specific purpose [syn: {specify},
{set apart}]
5: put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "She put
much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his
efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting
twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: {put}]
6: make undue claims to having [syn: {arrogate}, {ascribe}]
7: transfer one's right to
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