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Webster 1913 Edition


Assignment

As-sign′ment

,
Noun.
[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.
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 1828 Edition


Assignment

ASSI'GNMENT

, n.
1.
An allotting, or an appointment to a particular person or use.
2.
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of a lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange.
3.
The writing by which an interest is transferred.
4.
The appointment or designation of causes or actions in court, for trial on particular days.
5.
In law, the conveyance of the whole interest which a man has in an estate, usually for life or year. It differs from a lease, which is the conveyance of a less term than the lessor has in the estate.

Definition 2024


assignment

assignment

English

Noun

assignment (plural assignments)

  1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
    This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
  2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
    We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
  3. An assigned task.
    The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
  4. A position to which someone is assigned.
    Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
  5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
    Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
  6. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
    The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
  7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
    Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
  8. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

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