Terms Used In California Codes > Probate Code > Division 2 > Part 14 > Chapter 5 - Effect of Failure to Make Effective Appointment

• Appointee: means the person in whose favor a power of appointment is exercised. See California Probate Code 610
• Appointive property: means the property or interest in property that is the subject of the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• board: means the board of directors of the district unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See California Streets and Highways Code 27002
• commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Streets and Highways Code 22
• Conservator: includes a limited conservator. See California Probate Code 30
• County: includes "city and county. See California Streets and Highways Code 14
• Creating instrument: means the deed, will, trust, or other writing or document that creates or reserves the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• district: means a bridge and highway district unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See California Streets and Highways Code 27001
• Donor: means the person who creates or reserves a power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• highway: includes bridges, culverts, curbs, drains, and all works incidental to highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. See California Streets and Highways Code 23
• Instrument: means a will, a document establishing or modifying a trust, a deed, or any other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. See California Probate Code 45
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Permissible appointee: means a person in whose favor a power of appointment can be exercised. See California Probate Code 610
• Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity. See California Probate Code 56
• Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or another power of appointment over the appointive property. See California Probate Code 610
• Powerholder: means the person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved. See California Probate Code 610