assignable ( g silent)

[In Fr. a ign able.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. Able to be a igned, allotted, or given over as property to an individual named. 2. Able to be specified or pointed out. "So far as that element is concerned, production is susceptible of an increase without any a ignable bounds.-J. S. Mill: Polit. Econ ., vol. 1, bk. i, ch. xi., §4. One who or that which a igns. [ASSIGNOL.1 "The gospel is at once the a igner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength."- Dr . H. More: Decay of Piety . as-sign-ing, pr. par. [ASSIGN, v.] as-sign-ment, s. [Eng. a ign; -ment. In Ital. a egnamento.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of a igning or of designing any person or thing to a particular use. 1. The act of a igning or allotting any person or thing to a particular use. "Triumvirs, for the a ignment of lands and the receipt of names, are appointed."- Lewis : Early Rers Hist . , ch. xii., pt. ii., § 34. *2. The act of designing anything; design. "The second Bulwarke was the Hearing sence, 'Gainst which the second troupe a ignment makes." Spenser: F. Q., II. xi. 10. II. The state of being a igned. "I believe the years of a ignment are pa ed away with discontent and unhappine ."- Darwin : Voyage round the World , ch. xix. III. That which is a igned; also the document by which a ignment is made, such as a signed or endorsed cheque or bill, a lease, . to those to whom it has granted a portion of the revenue, and are indemnified by a ignments on the revenue collectors." J. 8. Mill : Polit . Econ.; Prelim. Rem., p. 17. IMG:content-0822.png:[blocks in formation] Law, Comm., . The act of signing over to another rights or property which have hitherto belonged to one's self. [A., I. 1.; III.] A ignment of estate is a transfer, or making over to another, of the right a person has in any estate. It is usually applied to an estate for life or years. It differs from a lease, for in a lease he grants an interest le than his own, reserving to himself a reversion; while in an a ignment he parts with the whole property, which from that time absolutely belongs to the a ignee. ( Black stone : Comment., bk. ii., ch. 20.)