ASSIGNEE CLAUSE
assignee clause.A provision of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that prevented a litigant without
diversity of citizenship from assigning a claim to another who did have the required diversity. • In
1948 the assignee clause was replaced by 28 USCA § 1359, which denies federal jurisdiction
when a party is improperly or collusively joined, by as-signment or otherwise, merely to invoke
jurisdiction.[Blacks Law 8th]