What is the effect of notice of assignment of a chose in action on the assignee's rights?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Union Bank v. Dutczak, 1924 CanLII 99 (SK CA):
In Snell on Equity, 18th ed., p. 88, the learned author quotes with approval the words of James, L.J. in Roxburghe v. Cox, supra, as follows: After notice of an assignment of a chose in action the debtor cannot by payment or otherwise do anything to take away or diminish the rights of the assignee as they stood at the time of the notice.
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