Relative Powers
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Those which relate to land; so called to distinguish them from those which are collateral to it. These powers are appendant: as, where a tenant for life has a power of making leases in possession. They are in gross when a person has an estate in the land, with a power of appointment, the execution of which falls out of the compass of his estate, but notwithstanding, is annexed in privity to it, and takes effect in the appointee out of an interest appointed in the appointer.
2 Bouvier, Inst. n. 1930.