ASSIGN Copy link • ASSIGNassignare (to assign anything to anybody, especially of lands to colonists: also munus alicui, a task, Cic.): attribuere alicui aliquid (general term for granting to a person: also of public lands, money, etc.): delegare aliquem (to refer anybody to another who is to do anything; to appoint a third person to pay another or to be paid by him: delegare est vice sua alium reum dare creditorivel cui jusserit, Ulp., Dig.; e.g., delegare debitorem, to refer anybody to one who is in my debt and will pay him: I will assign you to Epicurus, he will pay you; delegabo tibi Epicurum: ab illo fiet numeratio, Sen. Also delegare alicui aliquem, cui numeret, to order him to pay a debt due to me to a third person). To assign lands to any body, assignare alicui agros: to assign public lands to the people, plebem in agris constituere; multitudinem in agris collocare: to assign the troops winter-quarters, hiberna constituere: to assign every man his task, suum cuique munus describere: money to anybody, attribuere alicui pecuniam: alicui pecuniam curare (scilicet, solvendam ab aliquo, to order it to be paid by a third person). To assign a reason, rationem, causam afferre: anything as an excuse, excusare aliquid. In law: to prove or establish (as in, to assign error; false judgment; a waste. etc), planumfacere: planum facere atque probare: testibus planum facere: or productis testibus probare (if by evidence).