No power can be executed except by some instrument in writing, which would be sufficient in law to pass the estate or interest intended to pass under the power if the person executing the power were the actual owner.
CREDIT(S)
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1354, ch. 854, § 1053.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 45-117.
1973 Ed., § 45-1017.