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power of attorney

noun

Law.
  1. a written document given by one person or party to another authorizing the latter to act for the former.


power of attorney

noun

  1. legal authority to act for another person in certain specified matters
  2. the document conferring such authority
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Origin of power of attorney1

First recorded in 1740–50
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He managed to get the power of attorney and the new will cast aside, and lived for nine months with Barbara in Wales, before dying peacefully at home.

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Last year, the Scottish government started to look at extra safeguards to protect vulnerable people and ways in which power of attorney could be changed.

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There were forms, power of attorney documents, bank accounts, all needing order and constant tending.

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The woman hired to take care of it all — who had power of attorney over the property — had flown the coop, neighbors said, along with truckloads of goods.

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She said she had been introduced to Ron Hiller at the care home, and he had convinced her to grant him lasting power of attorney over her finances.

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