Assign

Assign is a legal term used in both English and Scottish law to indicate generally the transfer of property, but more particularly the transfer of movable property and personal rights. The word is also applied to the persons to whom the transfer is made. Very often, however, the word, when used—e.g. in a deed of transfer to A. B. and his assigns—is mere surplusage, because it includes everybody who takes from A. B., and the transfer to A. B. implies that he has the power of transferring to his assigns.