{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-181.004","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Property Code § 181.004","heading":"CONSTRUCTION.","body":"This chapter is intended to be declarative of the common law of this state, and it shall be liberally construed to make all powers, except imperative powers in trust, releasable unless the instrument creating the trust expressly provides otherwise.\nActs 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3724, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.","path":["PROPERTY CODE","TITLE 10. MISCELLANEOUS BENEFICIAL PROPERTY INTERESTS","SUBTITLE C. POWERS OF APPOINTMENT","CHAPTER 181. POWERS OF APPOINTMENT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.181.htm#181.004","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:37Z","sha256":"70b2e1805a399eb58b74a651bdeb0b06e72e4f02dc12125b972c3f0b007ea39d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-181.003","next":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-181.051"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}