0 a person to whom the rights to a property, etc. have been given:
1 a person who has been sent by their company or organization to live and work in another place for a period of time:
The landlord is just as much an assignee of the tenant as the person purchasing in the open market.
That responsibility applied to them, their heirs and their assignees, and those laws have never been repealed.
If a document is by its nature assignable, the assignee can assign as well as the original assignor.
If the assignee is an exclusive licensee, he stands for all practical purposes in the same position as the patentee.
The original tenant may also have obtained written indemnities from the assignee.
The persons who will be able to apply for rights are the breeder or discoverer of a new plant variety, or his assignee.
There a dispute may arise between the first assignee and another person who claims that he too has an assignment.
Therefore, the original tenant would be liable only until after the first assignee had reassigned the lease.
