a. (UN-1 7 b.)
Hence, in recent use, unassignability.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 62. I see this roomthiness in the whole, must as well have unassignable parts or such as cannot be laid out.
1780. T. Twining, in R. Twining, Recreat. & Stud. (1882), 76. In gracing, he does the most beautiful, most unassignable … things I ever heard.
1780. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xii. § 15. Such party may be either an assignable individual … or else a multitude of unassignable individuals.
1833. Sir E. E. Kay, in Weekly Notes, 15 Dec., 212/1. A vested reversionary interest subject to a life interest in leasehold property … [is] not an unassignable possibility.
