contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession. These words, and also the word forever, are commonly added to the word heirs in deeds conveying a fee simple, heirs and assigns forever but they are in such cases inoperative. The use of naming them, is explained in Spencer’s Case, 5 Rep. 16; and Ham. Parties, 128. The word heirs, however, does not include or imply assigns.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
Assignees; those to whom property shall have been transferred. Now seldom used except in the phrase, in deeds, “heirs, administrators, and assigns.”