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Definition of Assignment

1. Noun. A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces). "Hazardous duty"

2. Noun. The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.

3. Noun. The act of distributing something to designated places or persons. "The first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"

4. Noun. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.

5. Noun. An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor).

6. Noun. The act of putting a person into a non-elective position. "The appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

Definition of Assignment

1. n. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

Definition of Assignment

1. Noun. the act of assigning, or an assigned task ¹

2. Noun. a position to which someone is assigned ¹

3. Noun. (education) a task given to students, homework or coursework ¹

4. Noun. (legal) a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer ¹

5. Noun. (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Assignment

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Literary usage of Assignment

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The execution of the assignment, that it was executed in good faith, and not fraudulent. He then states his conclusions of law: 2. ..."

2. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"But, as already stated, if the assignment is based upon an immoral or illegal consideration, the courts will refuse to uphold it; and cases are on record ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1844)
"Only five creditors had become parties to this assignment, and no dividend had been paid ; when, on the 20th of January, 1843, Blake filed his petitions in ..."

4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"So far we have dealt with the voluntary assignment by parties to a contract of the benefits or the liabilities of the contract. ..."

5. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"assignment of Wages. assignment of wages grows out of the legal act of transferring or making over to another of the whole or part of any property, ..."

6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1866)
"28, such a reservation was held not to render the assignment fraudulent, because it did not appear, in point of fact, to have been inserted with an ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"By the assignment of the bottomry bond to them, they became bottomry creditors, and even if there had been no such 428*] 'assignment, and had they in fact ..."

8. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"These cases would seem to establish the rule in Kansas that it is not necessary to record the assignment of a mortgage even upon real estate, when given to ..."

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