Hypertext Webster Gateway: "assignment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Assignment \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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
assignment
n 1: as duty that you are assigned to perform especially in the
armed forces: "hazardous duty" [syn: {duty assignment}]
2: the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or
property is transferred from one person to another
3: the act of distributing something to designated places or
persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address
to each datum" [syn: {assigning}]
4: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: {grant}]
5: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an
instructor)
6: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
"the appointment had to be approved by the whole
committee" [syn: {appointment}, {designation}, {naming}]
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