Designation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The expression used by a testator to denote a person or thing, Instead of the name itself. A bequest of the farm which the testator bought of a person named, or of a picture which he owns, painted by a certain artist, would be a designation of the thing. A legacy " to the eldest son" of A. would be a designation of the person.
See 1 Rop. Leg. c. 2.