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appointee 1 : a person who is appointed to a position 2 : a person to whom property is appointed under a power of appointment ...
Appointee
Appointee, a person selected for a particular purpose; also the person in whose favour a power of appointment is executed....
Appointment in exercise of a Power
Appointment in exercise of a Power, In the case of freeholds an instrument which alters, abridges, or suspends a use limited by a prior assurance or trust creating the power which sanctions such appointment. In the case of appointments of uses of freeholds effected under the Statute of Uses the seisin to serve the appointed use was transferred by the prior assurance; the appointment vested the legal estate in the appointee, who took as though he were named in such prior assurance. After the 31st December, 1925, a power of appointment of land can only operate inequity, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1(7).Powers may also be reserved over personal estate, and in that case also only the equitable estate now passes; a common instance is the power of appointment among the issue usually given by a marriage settlement, by virtue of which the parents can distribute the settled funds amongst the issue in such shares as the donees of the power think fit, and the trustees will then hold t...
Confirmation
Confirmation, a species of conveyance by which a voidable estate is made valid and unavoidable, or by which a particular estate is increased. Estates which are void cannot be confirmed, but only those which are voidable, Watkin's Conv. 321. A confirmation may make a voidable or defeasible estate good, but it cannot work upon an estate that is void at law, Co. Litt. 295 b.Confirmation in Scotland is the ratification by a competent Court of an appointment of executors, and confers a title to uplift, administer, and dispose of the personal estate of the deceased. When the appointment of the executor has been made by the deceased, the appointee is called an executor-nominate and the confirmation a testament testamentor. When the appointment has been made by the Court, the appointee is called an executor-dative, and the confirmation a testament-dative....
Without assigning any cause
Without assigning any cause, the expression 'at any time' merely means that the termination may be made even during the substance of the term of appointment and 'without assigning any cause' means without communicating any cause to the appointee whose appointment is terminated. However, 'without assigning any cause' is not to be equated with 'without existence of any cause'. It merely means that the reason for which the termination is made need not be assigned or communicated to the appointee, Shrilekha Vidyarthi v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1991 SC 537: (1991) 1 SCC 212....
Commissioners for Oaths
Commissioners for Oaths. Masters extraordinary in Chancery acted in very early times as commissioners to administer oaths to persons making affidavits (see that title) before them concerning Chancery suits, and the judges of the Common Law courts were authorized, under 29 Car. 2, c. 5, by commission to empower 'what and as many persons as they should think fit and necessary' to take affidavits for one shilling fee concerning Common Law actions. The Masters in Chancery were succeeded by solicitors under 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78, appointed by the Lord Chancellor, the fee being one shilling and sixpence.The (English) Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 10), which amends and consolidates twenty-four enactments on the subject, enacts by s. 1 that the Lord Chancellor may, from time to time, by commission signed by him, appoint practising solicitors or other fit and proper persons to be commissioners for oaths; with power, in England or elsewhere, to administer any oath or take any...
Term of office
Term of office, means the period during which an elected officer or appointee may hold office, perform its functions, and enjoy its privileges and emoluments, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1483...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
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