Appointment

The designation of a person, by the person or persons having authority therefor, to discharge the duties of some office or trust. As distinguished from an election, it seems that an appointment is generally made by one person, or a limited number acting with delegated powers, while an election is made by all of a class. The word is sometimes used in a sense quite akin to this, and apparently derived from it as denoting the right or privilegb conferred by an appointment. Thus, the act of authorizing a man to print the laws of the United States by authority, and the right thereby conveyed, are considered such an appointment, but the right is not an office.

17 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 29, 238. And see 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 157; Cooper, Just. 599, 604.

The exercise of a right to designate the person or persons who are to take the use of real estate.

2 Washb. Real Prop. 302.