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Illusory appointment

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

The appointment hy a person having a power to appoint real or personal property among a class, of a merely nominal share to one of that class, practically excluding him; frequently forbidden by statute, v. Power.