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    A power of appointment is a term most frequently used in the law of wills to describe the ability of the testator (the person writing the will) to select...
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  • Look up appointment or appoint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Appointment may refer to: The prerogative power of a government official or executive...
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    Trust (law) (redirect from Law of Trusts)
    charitable purposes. Special Power of Appointment trust (SPA Trust): A trust implementing a special power of appointment to provide asset protection features...
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  • of his sons with his estranged wife. The other, a successful young Wall Street attorney named Gavin Banek, is rushing to file a power of appointment document...
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  • In the United States, a recess appointment is an appointment by the president of a federal official when the U.S. Senate is in recess. Under the U.S....
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    appointees. Classes of persons named higher on the list receive priority of appointment to those lower on the list. Although relatives of the deceased frequently...
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  • has the power of appointment and dismissal, are given the power to create and change certain laws (secondary legislation) by parent Acts of Parliament...
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    Discretionary trust (category Law of Australia)
    distribution of income only, but in some cases the trustees also have a power of appointment with respect to the capital in the trust, i.e. the corpus. Discretionary...
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    codicil and an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a power and also a disposition by will or testament of the guardianship...
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    king the power of appointment (patronage) of ecclesiastics. The monarch was head of the civil and religious hierarchies. The capital city of a viceroyalty...
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  • semi-presidential system of government, a reserve power, also known as discretionary power, is a power that may be exercised by the head of state (or their representative)...
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    congressional act that created the Office of the Librarian and granted the president power of appointment over the new office. Shortly thereafter, Jefferson...
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    of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 Trustee Act 2000 Charities Act 1993 Look up trustee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Trustee model of...
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    rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee...
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  • Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the Trump...
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  • "remains of an estate after the payment of debts and the expenses of administration", or The right of a person having a power of appointment to appoint...
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  • type of intentionally defective grantor-type irrevocable trust that includes an independent trustee, as well as a special limited power of appointment. Unlike...
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    exercise such power [of appointment] without advice". On December 5, 2015, the new Liberal government announced a new merit-based appointment process, using...
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    most of the power of appointment in the hands of the king or other French officials. As noted above, these reforms had been proposed at the meeting of the...
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    commission officers not otherwise commissioned by the law of Oklahoma and has the power of appointment. When any office at the state level becomes vacant for...
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    session of the National Assembly at any time. Apart from its legislative and oversight functions, the National Assembly has the power of appointment and removal...
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  • Regalism (category Age of Enlightenment)
    crown’s power of appointment of ecclesiastics to Church offices granted to the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Ferdinand, giving monarchy the power of appointment...
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  • The power of appointment being vested in the president of the United States by the United States Constitution, it is not within the power of the United...
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    Advance healthcare directive (category Power of attorney)
    the development of what some have called "second generation" advance directives – the "health care proxy appointment" or "medical power of attorney." Living...
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  • significant political power, including considerable influence over supposedly independent agencies due to the power of appointment.: 286  The president...
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    a special power of appointment. The act is distinct from the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991, which governs the legal capacity of minors, including...
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    different sub-region from the chief minister. The chief minister's power of appointment is codified in regional law through Bangsamoro Act No. 11, which...
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  • not subject to estate tax at the child's death (by reason of a general power of appointment, e.g.), a GST tax will be imposed when the child dies. This...
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    the power of appointment in The Federalist No. 76 (1778). The president, he asserted, should have the sole power to nominate because "one man of discernment...
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  • Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May...
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