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Definition of Assignation
1. Noun. A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers).
2. Noun. The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan. "The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
Specialized synonyms: Grant, Subsidisation, Subsidization, Reallocation, Reallotment, Reapportionment, Deal, Rationing, Parcel, Portion, Share
Generic synonyms: Distribution
Derivative terms: Allocate, Allot, Apportion, Assign, Parcel, Parcel
Definition of Assignation
1. n. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Definition of Assignation
1. Noun. An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature. ¹
2. Noun. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. ¹
3. Noun. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assignation
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Assignation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir ...by John Erskine, James Ivory by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"Effects of assignation, 724, 8. Power of assignee to execute diligence in ...
assignation in security, 725, 8. The assignee cannot be affected by the oath ..."
2. Styles of Deeds and Instruments: In Accordance with the Titles to Land by John Hendry, John Thompson Mowbray (1878)
""Where the assignee, as in this Style, has acquired right to the disposition by
disposition and assignation, or otherwise than by an assignation in the form ..."
3. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1825)
"Where an adjudication has been begun before the date of the assignation, litigi-
osity i will give the adjudication a preference over the assignation; ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, W.(editor) Guthrie (1876)
"EIGHT OF BELIEF AND TO assignation OF HYPOTHEC. ... In order to obviate any
question, however, an actual assignation may be expedient where large interests ..."
5. The Law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Mercantile Sequestration, in Scotland by John Hill Burton (1845)
"It has been held that " the legal form of intimation is not necessary to complete
an assignation whereby one of two partners assigns his share of the ..."
6. Analysis of Heritable Securities Acts 1845 and 1847: Infeftment Act, Service by William Alexander (1848)
"WHO MAY GRANT AN assignation UNDER THE ACT. The right of a creditor in an Heritable
... assignation or other deed of conveyance under this Act, provided the ..."
7. Treatise on Deeds Chiefly Affecting Moveables by Alexander Duff (1840)
"{assignation. bond of Trust lawfully subscribed by the person alledged to be the
... The oldest style of the assignation is that contained in Dallas of St ..."
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