2. Verb. (third-person singular of assign) ¹
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Definition of Assigns
1. assign [v] - See also: assign
Literary usage of Assigns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Customs and Rents of this Kind, as to the same now Baron of Baltimore, his Heirs,
and assigns, shall seem fit and agreeable, and not immediately of Us, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... upon the actual and complete delivery of the said goods and freight to said
consignees or their assigns. "Ac. JH Burch, care of Carrington & Preston, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Ж, his heirs and assigns to bring the rubbish which may arise in another sough-pit
made, or intended to be made, in Mars/tail's parcel of woody ground, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, Sheldon, William Robert, 1857- (1888)
"devised to trustees " and their heirs " (omitting " assigns ") C*«P- XIII.
on trust for sale, the trust was to be considered as annexed not to the person, ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... his heirs or assigns, or to the residents and inhabitants of the same province
in the ports, creeks, and shores aforesaid, and especially in the woods ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"But if the devise be to a man and his assigns, without annexing words of per- of
appointment, by will only. superadded, that power (as already has been ..."
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