ASSIGNEE, in Law,a Person to whom a Thing is appointed, or assigned, to be occupied, paid, or done. See ASSIGN.
An Assignee differs from a Deputy in this, that the Assignee possesses or enjoys the thing in his own Right, and a Deputy in the Right of another. See DEPUTY.
Assignee may be so either by Deed or by Law.
Assignee by Deed, is when a Lessee of a Term sells and assigns the same to another: that other is his Assignee by Deed.
Assignee by Law, is he whom the Law so makes without any Appointment of the Person.—Thus, an Executor is Assignee in Law to the Testator, who dies possessed of a Lease made to him and his Assigns. See EXECUTOR, TESTATOR, etc.
