Assignment of contract is when one party within a contract assigns the rights and/or obligations of that contract to another party outside of it. The party who is assigning the contract is known as the assignor and the party receiving the rights and responsibilities of the contract is the assignee.
An assignment of rights agreement is a written document in which one party, the assignor, assigns to another party all or part of their rights under an existing contract. The most common example of this would be when someone wants to sell their shares of stock in a company.
Unless an assignment is prohibited in a contract, the outgoing party may assign their rights to the incoming (third) party without the consent of the other party to the agreement. A Letter of assignment can be used to affect the assignment and is signed by the outgoing party and the incoming party.
An assignment involves at least three parties. The assignor is the party that gives the contract rights to another party. The assignee is the party that receives the contract rights from the assignor. The obligor is the party that didn't participate in the assignment, but is now obligated to the assignee.
It can be used (among other purposes) by the buyer (the Assignee) to show that the buyer owns the assigned asset or assets, and by the seller (the Assignor) to prove that it is the buyer that now has assumed all of the obligations related to the assigned asset(s), but without having to show the full APA, which may have ...
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The assignor must agree to assign their rights and duties under the contract to the assignee. The assignee must agree to accept, or "assume," those contractual rights and duties. The other party to the initial contract must consent to the transfer of rights and obligations to the assignee.
The assignor must agree to assign their rights and duties under the contract to the assignee. The assignee must agree to accept, or "assume," those contractual rights and duties. The other party to the initial contract must consent to the transfer of rights and obligations to the assignee.