Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Illusory Appointment Act

An 1839 English statute providing that no appointment of property is to be declared invalid on grounds that it is illusory. ( This statute was repealed and reissued in 1925 as part of the Law of Property Act.

illusory appointment

a nominal, unduly restrictive, or conditional transfer of property under a power of appointment.