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Cestui que trust or cestui que use






Cestui que trust or cestui que use

The formal Latin word for the beneficiary or donee of a trust.

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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.

Donee
He to whom a gift is made, or a bequest given; one who is invested with a power to select an appointee, he is sometimes called an appointer.

Trust
Contracts, devises. An equitable right, title or interest in property, real or personal, distinct from its legal ownership; or it is a personal obligation for paying, delivering or performing anything, where the person trusting has no real. right or security, for by, that act he confides altogether to the faithfulness of those intrusted. This is its most general meaning, and includes deposits, bailments, and the like. In its more technical sense, it may be defined to be an obligation upon a person, arising out of a confidence reposed in him, to apply property faithfully, and according to such confidence.



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Cestui
He. This word is frequently used in composition as, cestui que trust, cestui que vie.

Cestui que trust
A barbarous phrase, to signify the beneficiary of an estate held in trust. He for whose benefit another person is enfeoffed or seised of land or tenements, or is possessed of personal property.

Cestui que use
He to whose use land is granted to another person the latter is called the terre-tenant, having in himself the legal property and possession;

Cestui que via
He for whose life - land is held by another: he whose life measures the duration of an estate.

Cestui que vie
He for whose life land is holden by another person; the latter is called tenant per auter vie, or tenant for another's life.



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Cesset processus
Practice. An entry made on the record that there be a stay of the procas or proceedings.

Cessio bonorum
Civil law. The relinquishment which a debtor made of his property for the benefit of his creditors

Cession
1) Civil law. The act by which a party assigns or transfers property to a other; an assignment. 2) contracts. Yielding up; release. 3) Ecclesiastical law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender.

Cestui
He. This word is frequently used in composition as, cestui que trust, cestui que vie.

Cestui que trust
A barbarous phrase, to signify the beneficiary of an estate held in trust. He for whose benefit another person is enfeoffed or seised of land or tenements, or is possessed of personal property.

Cestui que trust or cestui que use

Cestui que use
He to whose use land is granted to another person the latter is called the terre-tenant, having in himself the legal property and possession;

Cestui que via
He for whose life - land is held by another: he whose life measures the duration of an estate.

Cestui que vie
He for whose life land is holden by another person; the latter is called tenant per auter vie, or tenant for another's life.

Ceteris paribus
(United Kingdom) Other things being equal.

Chafewax
English law. An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing, to the writs, commissions and other. instruments then made to be issued out.

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