Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 75 > Chapter 10 > Part 3 - Exercise of Power of Appointment

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appointee: means a person to which a powerholder makes an appointment of appointive property. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Appointive property: means the property or property interest subject to a power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Blanket-exercise clause: means a clause in an instrument that exercises a power of appointment and is not a specific-exercise clause. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means a person that creates a power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• General power of appointment: means a power of appointment exercisable in favor of the powerholder, the powerholder's estate, a creditor of the powerholder, or a creditor of the powerholder's estate. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Gift-in-default clause: means a clause identifying a taker in default of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Impermissible appointee: means a person that is not a permissible appointee. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Instrument: means a record. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Nongeneral power of appointment: means a power of appointment that is not a general power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Permissible appointee: means a person in whose favor a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Person: means an individual, estate, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an interest in, or another power of appointment over, the appointive property. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Powerholder: means a person in whom a donor creates a power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Specific-exercise clause: means a clause in an instrument that specifically refers to and exercises a particular power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Taker in default of appointment: means a person that takes all or part of the appointive property to the extent the powerholder does not effectively exercise the power of appointment. See Utah Code 75-10-102
• Terms of the instrument: means the manifestation of the intent of the maker of the instrument regarding the instrument's provisions as expressed in the instrument or as may be established by other evidence that would be admissible in a legal proceeding. See Utah Code 75-10-102