power of appointment

1. 1.

   authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property

   Broaderauthority

Questions about power of appointment

What does power of appointment mean?

power of appointment means "authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property".

Is power of appointment a common word?

power of appointment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.