assignable
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- adjective
- /əˈsaɪnəbl/
- Formal
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transferible
- When contractual rights are assignable, secondary markets develop, allowing mortgagees to sell their contractual entitlements to third parties.
Examples
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The latter violates the Fifth Amendment if, as Chief Justice Roberts just said in Stanford v. Roche, the prior inventor has an assignable property right in the invention.
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But to involve is to form a block that runs its own line between the terms in play and beneath assignable relations.
Academic text (2017) -
They're a bit more like "const" in C, assignable once and never assignable again. Except that they are assignable again through various mechanisms.
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They're a bit more like "const" in C, assignable once and never assignable again. Except that they are assignable again through various mechanisms.
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The rights to use the land are assignable to another party through a legal agreement.
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He was pleased to find out that the benefits from his contract are assignable to his heirs.
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If the property is assignable, you can legally transfer it to your friend without any issues.
Synonyms
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Able to be given to another person, for example a ticket
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6.8
Able to be legally given to another person
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Able to be sold or given to another person
A thing an owner can legally sell or give to another person
The law allows someone to give something they own to another person
How Transferable
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Etymology
The word assignable comes from the verb assign, which includes the part sign meaning 'mark' or 'sign'. So an assignable right is one you can officially 'mark' and move to another owner, that is, legally transfer to someone else.