Assignor

A person or entity who has made an assignment of rights or property.

In general the assignor can limit the operation of his assignment, and impose whatever condition he may think proper, but when he makes a general assignment in trust for the use of his creditors, he can impose no condition whatever which will deprive them of any right nor any condition forbidden by law; as giving preference when the law forbids it.

An assignor may legally choose his own trustees.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.