Definition of Assignor

1. Noun. (law) the party who makes an assignment.

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Party

Definition of Assignor

1. n. An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

Definition of Assignor

1. Noun. (legal) The person or party which makes an assignment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Assignor

1. one who legally transfers property or right [n -S]

Literary usage of Assignor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"Special Statutes Making assignor of a Thing in Action a Necessary Party. The special provisions in the codes of some States requiring the assignor of a ..."

2. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"assignor to execute the necessary instruments unless the assignee ... Remedy of Assignee when the Title Derived by him from the assignor Proves Defective. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Effect of the Contract of Sale on the Legal Rights of by Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Benjamin Russell, William Norman Raeburn, Leonard Charles Thomas (1910)
"If the debtor does not accept it, the holder is not even a creditor of the debtor, but merely a creditor of the assignor. But if, besides the indorsement of ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... the said fraudulent transactions with which she was connected and her part therein were studiously concealed from the plaintiff and his assignor, ..."

5. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"99, ф 14, the assignee may sue in his own name or he may sue in the name of the assignor for his, the assignee's, use. Bentley г'. Standard F. Ins. Co., ..."

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