# Assignment

> Assignment preserves the evidence needed for claims to survive time, transfer, and dispute

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:documents-custody:assignment` |
| Family | Documents, Custody & Evidence |
| Domain | Governance |
| Era | Institutional Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | record-or-instrument |
| Archetype | The Seal |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Assignment is a record or instrument in the Documents, Custody & Evidence family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Assignment preserves the evidence needed for claims to survive time, transfer, and dispute.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** borrower, lender, title professional, attorney, custodian, recorder
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** durable evidence, priority, notice, transferability
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Assignment preserves the evidence needed for claims to survive time, transfer, and dispute
- **Gift:** Clarity about assignment makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When assignment is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when assignment is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where assignment appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Assignment reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Assignment changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Assignment changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Assignment can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Seal enters the reading through Assignment. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What must Assignment make durable before you can safely proceed?

**Guidance:** Resolve provenance, authority, custody, and ambiguity before relying on the artifact.

## Game function

Provides Evidence or Authority; missing custody or a defect blocks transfer. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **Triple-Net Lease conflicts with Assignment.** Triple-Net Lease conflicts with Assignment through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Allonge prices Assignment.** Allonge prices Assignment through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Assignment documents Lost Note Affidavit.** Assignment documents Lost Note Affidavit through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Assignment is evidenced by Site.** Assignment is evidenced by Site through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Assignment through the lineage of Documents, Custody & Evidence: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Assignment: engraved layers, signatures, parcel geometry, seals, and custody marks held inside a precise brass frame; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [eMortgage Standards and Specifications](https://www.mismo.org/standards-resources/emortgage-standards-and-specifications) — Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization; eMortgage, SMART Doc, RON, eVault, eRecording.
- [Ginnie Mae MBS Guide](https://www.ginniemae.gov/issuers/program_guidelines/Pages/mbs_guide.aspx) — Ginnie Mae; pooling, issuance, custody, servicing, investor reporting.
- [American Land Title Association](https://www.alta.org/) — American Land Title Association; title, escrow, closing, title insurance practice.
