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.
Note: 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.
ASSIGNOR
As`sign*or", n. Etym: [L. assignator. Cf. Assigner.] (Law)
Defn: An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
ASSIMILABILITY
As*sim`i*la*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.
ASSIMILABLE
As*sim"i*la*ble, a.
Defn: That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.
ASSIMILATE
As*sim"i*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assimilated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Assimilating.] Etym: [L. assimilatus, p. p. of assimilare; ad +
similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble,
Assimilate.]
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance
between. Sir M. Hale.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.