Illusory appointment

“The appointment of a merely nominal share of the property to one of the objects of a power in order to escape the rule that an exclusive appointment could not be made unless it was authorized by the instrument creating the power, and was void in equity, but St. 1 Wm. IV, c. 46, abolished this rule.”

— Black’s Law Dictionary See 3 Wall. Jr. 32, 13 Fed. Cas. (U. S.) 50.