Linda:
There are many reasons a power of attorney might be given. Usually is is
because the person or agent to which the PoA is given is present in a
locality and the grantor is not or the grantor is in some way not able to
conduct the business such as illness or some other incapacity.
Garland Edgell
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From: Linda Cassidy Lewis <oneofus(a)in-motion.net>
To: CASSIDY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INKOSCIU-L] Old legal document help needed.
Date: Saturday, February 21, 1998 7:52 AM
Could someone with experience with old legal documents give your feedback
on
the following. I have a court record of a father giving consent for
his
son
to act as his power of attorney in the sale of his land. This
consent
was
signed in Sept 1791 in Randolph Co. VA (now WV) and proved in the
court
of
that same county in Apr 1792. The land in question was sold in May
1792.
The situation as I know it to be is that all or most of the children of
the
father in question had already moved to KY... except for the son to
which
he
is giving PoA. The son who acted as PoA and sold the land did,
himself,
move to KY immediately after the sale. So :
1. Could this reasonably indicate that the father was also moving
out of state before his land could be sold?
2. For what reasons would a father sell his land rather than will
it
to his children? (The fact that he names his son PoA indicates that
he
had a
good relationship with at least this one son... and there is nothing
to
indicate that he was not on good terms with all his children.)
Linda
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