An order by a creditor to a debtor to pay to a designated third person a specified fund owing by such debtor to such creditor operates as an assignment, of such fund.1 To effect an assignment, however, the order must indicate a specific fund. An order drawn generally, not indicating any specific fund to be paid to the holder thereof, is not an assignment by the weight of authority.2 So an order to a city official to deliver warrants to a specified company is not an assignment of the fund against which such warrants are drawn.3 Accordingly a debt due from the drawee to the drawer may be attached before acceptance, and the attachments will have priority over the order.4 But subsequent verbal agreement of the parties may specify the fund though not specified in the order, and thus constitute an assignment.5 An order to pay less than the amount of the debt cannot operate as an assignment at law. An order to pay a certain number of dollars "of any money due or to become due,"'6 or an order to pay a part of a debt due,7 have been held not to be assignments.

17 Story v. Hull, 143 111. 506; 32 N. E. 265.

1 Bank v. Gibson. 21 Ont. 613; In re Hanna, 105 Fed. 587; United States v. Ferguson, 78 Fed. 103; Joyce v. Wing Yet Lung, 87 Cal. 424; 25 Pac. 545; Central Nat. Bank v. Spratlen. 7 Colo. App. 430; 43 Pac. 1048; Walton v. Harkan, 112 Ga. 814; 38 S. E. 105; Metcalf v. Kincaid, 87 la. 443; 43 Am. St. .Rep. 391; 54 N. W. 867; Harlow v. Bartlett, 96 Me. 294; 52 Atl. 638; Jenness v. Wharff, 87 Me. 307; 32 Atl. 908; Hurley v. Bendel, 67 Minn. 41; 69 N. W. 477; Union Iron Works v. Kilgore, 65 Minn. 497; 67 N. W. 1017; Griggs v. St. Paul. 56 Minn. 150; 57 X. W. 461; Harmon v. Conrow, 19 Mont. 104; 47 Pac. 640; Merchants' & M. Nat. Bank v. Barnes. 18 Mont. 335; 56 Am. St. Pep. 586; 47 L. R. A. 737; 45 Pac. 218; Robbins v. Klein, 60 O. S. 199; 54 N. E. 94; Gillette v. Murphy, 7 Okla. 91; 54 Pac. 413; Willard v. Bullen. 41 Or. 25; 67 Pac. 924; McDaniel v. Maxwell, 21 Or. 202; 28 Am. St. Rep. 740; 27

Pac. 952; Bank v. Rhea County (Tenn. Ch. App.), 59 S. W. 442; Chesapeake Classified Building Association v. Coleman, 94 Va. 433; 26 S. E. 843; Dickerson v. Spokane, 26 Wash. 292; 66 Pac. 381; Dirim-ple v. Bank, 91 Wis. 601; 65 N. W. 501.

2 Thomson v. Huggins, 23 Ont. App. 191; Cashman v. Harrison, 90 Cal. 297; 27 Pac. 283; Hall v. Flanders, 83 Me. 242; 22 Atl. 158; Hol-brook v. Payne, 151 Mass. 383; 21 Am. St. Rep. 456; 24 N. E. 210; Bradley-Currier Co. v. Bernz, 55 N. J. Eq. 10; 35 Atl. 832; Commercial National Bank v. Portland, 37 Or. 33; 60 Pac. 563; 54 Pac. 814; Jones v. Cunningham, 4 Tex. Civ. App. 26; 15 S. W. 38; Harris County v. Campbell, 68 Tex. 22; 2 Am. St. Rep. 467; 3 S. W. 243.

3 Commercial National Bank v. Portland. 37 Or. 33; 60 Pac. 503; 54 Pac. 814.

4 Holbrook v. Payne, 151 Mass. 383; 21 Am. St. Rep. 456; 24 N. E. 210.