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Beneficial power

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In New York law and practice. A power which has for its object the donee of the power, and which is to be executed solely for his banefit; as distinguished from a trust power, which has for its object a person other than the donee, and is to be executed solely for the benefit of such person.

Jennings v. Conboy, 73 N. Y. 234; Rev. St. N. Y. § 79.