noun

• The authority to act for another person in specified or all legal or financial matters.

  ‘If he was told there was such a veto power or power of attorney, why did he not ask to see proof of same.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘We've had conversations about her wishes; I have both financial and medical power of attorney for her, should it become necessary, and I'm the executor of her will as well.’
  • ‘There, the wife was not involved in the company, she was not a company director, her husband was simply temporarily incapacitated and she had power of attorney.’
  • ‘But she is in full command of her faculties and is quite adamant she does not want me to have power of attorney over her financial affairs - she can manage perfectly well, thank you.’
  • ‘And that son has her enduring power of attorney.’