Definition of Asignment
As*sign"ment (&?;), n. [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.
&fist; 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the act of assigning, or an assigned task
- a position to which someone is assigned
- (law) a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer
- (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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