Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
  
  A competent and disinterested person who is authorized by another person to act in his or her place. In real estate conveyance transactions, an attorney-in-fact, who has a fiduciary relationship with his or her principal, should be so authorized by way of a written, notarized and recordable instrument called a power of attorney. (See power-of-attorney)
  
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