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Power of appointment

noun

Authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property.

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"Power of appointment" Quotes from Famous Books

... States, denotes it to be nothing more than a supplement to the other, for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary method of appointment, in cases to which the general method was inadequate. The ordinary power of appointment is confined to the President and Senate JOINTLY, and can therefore only be exercised during the session of the Senate; but as it would have been improper to oblige this body to be continually in session for the appointment of officers and as vacancies might happen IN THEIR RECESS, ...

— The Federalist Papers

... treatment he received. Richard Yordas treated him badly; that may have made him wiser. V. b. c. means 'vide box C,' unless I am greatly mistaken. He wrote those letters as plainly and clearly as he could against this power of appointment as recited here. But afterward, with knife and pounce, he scraped them out, as now becomes plain with this magnifying-glass; probably he did so when all these archives, as he used to call them, were rudely ordered over to my predecessor. A nice bit of revenge, ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... the defaulting collector of customs for the port of New York,—a case which figured prominently in the exciting Presidential canvass of 1840,—they would not trust Mr. Polk with the duty of naming the committee of investigation. The House itself exercised the power of appointment, to the great disparagement of ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... easily satisfied, truly, but I don't think if I had the power of appointment I should entrust such an office ...

— Hollowmell - or, A Schoolgirl's Mission • E.R. Burden

... power of removal was a necessary incident to the power of appointment, and vested in the President by virtue of his power to appoint. It was claimed also on the same side that the President's duty to see the laws faithfully executed could not be discharged if subordinates could be kept in office against his will. In most cases the ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar