POTver

Authority given by one person to another thority to dispose of an estate; authority of the ernment, as legislative, executive and judicial a near or common remote or improbable pro se introductam [heirs], a right which interpretatur: a power, selpsam dissolvere podissolve [unloose], but of a defendant is the the condition of the jure, etc.; In pari existing in London. estrays or goods disoffense of breaking a or goods impounded. levied under an exthe United States, at twelve pence in the of every merchant que: because. Pour whom it may concern. etc.; a writ by which tenant in capite, dehis leave. or rich. division among coenclosing of land of an- The providing of corn, house. king, or other great poitstie. to act for him; audepartments of govpower, v. Implied point a person to the enjoyment of property of the testator or grantor, ■who is called the donor, — power which, if the donee takes no interest in the property, is called a power collateral, otherwise a power coupled with an interest, — power called appendant when the appointment is made out of the estate of the donee or in derogation of his interest, and a power in gross when the appointment is to take effect on the termination of his estate, — power called a general power where the donee can appoint any one, and a particular power where he can appoint one or all of a certain class of persons. Power of attorney: an instrument of authoi-ity to an attorney in fact, — otherwise sometimes called a letter of attorney.