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Appointee






Appointee

A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power.

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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Appointee
A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power.

Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.

Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.

Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.

Trust
Contracts, devises. An equitable right, title or interest in property, real or personal, distinct from its legal ownership; or it is a personal obligation for paying, delivering or performing anything, where the person trusting has no real. right or security, for by, that act he confides altogether to the faithfulness of those intrusted. This is its most general meaning, and includes deposits, bailments, and the like. In its more technical sense, it may be defined to be an obligation upon a person, arising out of a confidence reposed in him, to apply property faithfully, and according to such confidence.



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Appointment
1) Government, wills. The act by which a person is selected and invested with an office; as the appointment of a judge, of which the making out of his commission is conclusive evidence. 2) By appointment is also understood a public employment, nearly synonymous with office.

Appointor
One authorized by the donor under the statute of uses, to execute a power.

Apportion
To divide and assign according to a definite rule. the division is not necessarily equal but is fair according to the respective interests of the parties involved.

Apportionment
The division and distribution of something into proportionate parts; to each according to their share. For example, if a court ordered apportionment of a contract, the party would be required to perform only to a extent equal to the performance of the other side.

Apposal of sheriffs
English law. The charging them with money received upon account of the Exchequer.

Apposer
English law. An officer of the Court of Exchequer, called the foreign apposer.

Appostille
French law. Postil. In general this means an addition or annotation made in the margin of an act, [contract in writing,] or of some writing



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Appointee

Appointment
1) Government, wills. The act by which a person is selected and invested with an office; as the appointment of a judge, of which the making out of his commission is conclusive evidence. 2) By appointment is also understood a public employment, nearly synonymous with office.

Appointor
One authorized by the donor under the statute of uses, to execute a power.

Apportion
To divide and assign according to a definite rule. the division is not necessarily equal but is fair according to the respective interests of the parties involved.

Apportionment
The division and distribution of something into proportionate parts; to each according to their share. For example, if a court ordered apportionment of a contract, the party would be required to perform only to a extent equal to the performance of the other side.

Apposal of sheriffs
English law. The charging them with money received upon account of the Exchequer.

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