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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.
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.
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.
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. the man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. he assigned to his men their several posts.
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. it is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
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.
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