A Special POA is a power of attorney limited to specific acts, parties, assets, or transaction steps set out in the document.
What It Is
A Special POA is a power of attorney limited to specific acts, parties, assets, or transaction steps set out in the document. This page should own the definitional layer for the concept on Glossary.ae and explain it in a way that makes its role clear for sale signing, gifting, mortgage, registration, transaction-specific delegated authority.
What It Is Not
It is not the sale contract between buyer and seller and it is not the same as the seller’s instruction form.It is not a blanket authority document and it is not interchangeable with a general POA.
When It Is Used
Use this term when discussing sale signing, gifting, mortgage, registration, transaction-specific delegated authority.
Where You’ll See It
You will see it in trustee submissions, sale files, gifting files, mortgage execution packs, remote-signing workflows.
Process Context
This concept sits at the transaction-specific authority stage before the delegated act is carried out. It should help the user distinguish this concept from adjacent terms in the same process chain rather than flattening the sequence into one generic label.
Jurisdiction Note
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Related Terms
Power of Attorney (POA), General POA, Property Sale POA, Corporate POA, Attestation
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