assignment is a legal term whereby an individual, the “assignor,” transfers rights, property, or other benefits to another known as the “assignee.” this concept is used in both contract and property law. for example, if a contracts with b to teach b guitar for $50, a can assign this contract to c. that is, this assignment is both: (1) an assignment of a’s rights under the contract to the $50; and (2) a delegation of a’s duty to teach guitar to c. in this example, a is both the “assignor” and the “delegee” who delegates the duties to another (c), c is known as the “obligor” who must perform the obligations to the assignee, and b is the “assignee” who is owed duties and is liable to the “obligor”. first, if an individual has not yet secured the contract to perform duties to another, he/she cannot assign his/her future right to an assignee. third, the obligor can sue the assignee directly if the assignee does not pay him/her. following the previous example, this means that c (obligor) can sue b (assignee) if c teaches guitar to b, but b does not pay c $50 in return.