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Enabling Power

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

When the donor of a power, who is the owner of the estote, confers upon persons not seised of the fee the right of creating interests to take effect out of it, which could not be done by the donee of the power unless by such authority, this is called an "enabling power."

2 Bouv. Inst. no. 1928.