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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assignment \As*sign"ment\, n. [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF. assenement.]
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
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(Law)
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
The writing by which an interest is transferred.
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The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.
Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "order, request, directive," from Old French assignement "(legal) assignment (of dower, etc.)," from Late Latin assignamentum, noun of action from Latin assignare (see assign). Meaning "appointment to office" is mid-15c.; that of "a task assigned" (to someone) is from c.1848.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 2 The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 3 An assigned task. 4 A position to which someone is assigned. 5 (context education English) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 6 (context legal English) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right. 7 (context legal English) A document that effects this transfer. 8 (context computing English) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
WordNet
n. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: duty assignment]
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assigning]
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: grant]
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, designation, naming]
Wikipedia
In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable. In most imperative programming languages, the assignment statement (or expression) is a fundamental construct.
Today, the most commonly used notation for this basic operation has come to be ''x'' = ''expr'' (originally Superplan 1949–51, popularized by Fortran 1957 and C) followed by ''x'' := ''expr'' (originally ALGOL 1958, popularised by Pascal), although there are many other notations in use. In some languages the symbol used is regarded as an operator (meaning that the assignment has a value) while others define the assignment as a statement (meaning that it cannot be used in an expression).
Assignments typically allow a variable to hold different values at different times during its life-span and scope. However, some languages (primarily strictly functional) do not allow that kind of "destructive" reassignment, as it might imply changes of non-local state. The purpose is to enforce referential transparency, i.e. functions that do not depend on the state of some variable(s), but produce the same results for a given set of parametric inputs at any point in time. Modern programs in other languages also often use similar strategies, although less strict, and only in certain parts, in order to reduce complexity, normally in conjunction with complementing methodologies such as data structuring, structured programming and object orientation.
Assignment is a South African political thriller, produced and written by Laszlo Bene and Sandi Schultz. It was directed and edited by Laszlo Bene. Assignment was shot in 2014 in Johannesburg. It was shown in 2015 at various film festivals and will be released in Cinemas nationwide in South Africa on February 26, 2016 by Indigenous Film Distribution.
Assignment or assign may refer to:
- Assignment (computer science), a type of modification to a variable
- Assignment (education), a task given to students by their teachers to be completed out of the class time.
- Assignment (law), a transfer of rights between two parties
- Assignment (mathematical logic)
- Assignment (NBA D-League), process of sending National Basketball Association players to its development league.
- The Assignment (1977 film), a Swedish film
- The Assignment (1997 film)
- Assignment (2015 film)
- The Assignment (novella)
- "The Assignment" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), a television episode
- "The Assignment" (Chick Publications), a religious tract
- Assignment problem, a type of math problem
- Along with clearing, a stage in exercising a financial option
- Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions
- The DOS ASSIGN command
An assignment (Latin cessio) is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. In both instances, it encompasses the transfer of rights held by one party—the assignor—to another party—the assignee. It can also be a transfer of a benefit, including an equitable interest, according to established rules (at Common Law or in Equity). The rights may be vested or contingent.The details of the assignment determines some additional rights and liabilities (or duties).
Typically a third-party is involved in a contract with the assignor, and the contract is in effect transferred to the assignee. For example, a borrower borrows money from a local bank. The local bank receives a mortgage note and can thereafter transfer that note to a financial institution in exchange for a lump-sum of cash, thereby assigning the right to receive payment from the borrower to another entity. Mortgages and lending contracts are relatively amenable to assignment since the lendor's duties are relatively limited; other contracts which involve personal duties such as legal counsel may not be assignable.
The related concept of novation is not assignment; rather than assigning only the rights to another party, novation involves the replacement of the original party with a new party or the replacement of the original contract with a new contract. Since novation creates a new contract, it requires the consent of all parties whereas assignment does not require the consent of the nonassigning party, although in the case of assignment the consent of the nonassigning party may be required through a contractual provision.
(Re) Assignment (working title Tomboy, a Revenger's Tale) is an American crime-thriller film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Denis Hamill. The film stars Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Terry Chen, Paul McGillion, and Caitlin Gerard.
It is the fifth collaboration between Weaver and Hill, who produced the first four Alien films in which Weaver starred.
In 2016, Michelle Rodriguez won best actress from Verband der deutschen Filmkritik 1.
Usage examples of "assignment".
On opening it, another paper fell out of it, which on examination proved to be an assignment of a judgment in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County from Joseph Anderson, the late husband of the widow above named, to James Adams, the judgment being in favor of said Anderson against one Joseph Miller.
The assignment which the General is now exhibiting purports to have been by Anderson in writing.
Adams tell young Anderson that the assignment made by his father was signed with a cross.
They set themselves gravely about proving that the assignment could not have been in the deed when Talbott got it from young Adams, as he, Talbott, would have seen it when he opened the deed to correct the record.
Talbott to Radford, that he found the assignment wrapped up in another paper at his office, that contradicts the statement of Lincoln that it fell out of the deed.
Adams, and that he knows he found the assignment in the bunch, but he is not certain which particular deed it was in, nor is he certain whether it was folded in the same deed out of which it was taken, or another one, when it was brought to my office.
I stated that an assignment of a judgment, a copy of which I gave, had existed--Benj.
Now mark, if Keys saw the assignment on the last of May or first of June, Gen.
Now again, let the reader, bearing in mind that General Adams has unequivocally said, in one part of his address, that the charge in relation to the assignment was manufactured just before the election, turn to the affidavit of Peter S.
Weber says that it was in May, and if so, it is most clear that Talbott was not frightened on account of the assignment, unless the General lies when he says the assignment charge was manufactured just before the election.
I hold an assignment of said judgment, dated the 20th of May, 1828, and signed by said Anderson, I have never pretended to deny or conceal, but stated that fact in one of my circulars previous to the election, and also in answer to a bill in chancery.
What then becomes of all their sophistry about Adams not being fool enough to forge an assignment that would not cover the case?
On the 6th of September he said he had before stated in the hand-bill that he held an assignment dated May 20th, 1828, which in reply I pronounced to be false, and referred to the hand-bill for the truth of what I said.
Passing over such parts of the article as have neither fact nor argument in them, I come to the question asked by Adams whether any person ever saw the assignment in his possession.
His object was to prove that the assignment was not in the deed when Talbott got it: but it was discovered he could not swear this safely, without first swearing the deed was opened--and if he swore it was opened, he must show a motive for opening it, and the conclusion with him and his father was that the pointing out the error would appear the most plausible.