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.
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.
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.
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.
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