assignment of error

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ASSIGNMENT OF ERRORS. The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the
errors in the record of which he complains.
     2. The errors should be assigned in distinct terms, such as the
defendant in error may plead to; and all the errors of which the plaintiff
complains should be assigned. 9 Port. 186; 16 Conn. 83; 6 Dana, 242 3 How.
(Miss.) R. 77.
    

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