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Trustee process






Trustee process

Practice. In Massacchusetts, this is a process given by statute, in imitation of the foreign attachment of the English law.

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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.

Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.

Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.

Foreign
That which belongs to another country; that which is strange.

Attachment
Crim. law, practice. A writ requiring a sheriff to apprehend a particular person, who has been guilty of. a contempt of court, and to bring the offender before the court.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.



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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.

Trust agreement or declaration
The legal document that sets up a living trust. Testamentary trusts are set up in a will.

Trustee
Estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust.

Trustee de son tort
A trustee "of his own wrong"; a person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but because of his or her intermeddling with the trust and the exercise of some control over the trust property, can be held by a court as "constructive" trustee which entails liability for losses to the trust.

Truster
He who creates a trust. A convenient term used in the laws of Scotland.



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True conflict
A legal problem where one or more jurisdictions has a genuine interest in having its law applied. Brainerd Currie (supra) was instrumental in developing the distinction between true and false conflicts.

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.

Trust agreement or declaration
The legal document that sets up a living trust. Testamentary trusts are set up in a will.

Trustee
Estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust.

Trustee de son tort
A trustee "of his own wrong"; a person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but because of his or her intermeddling with the trust and the exercise of some control over the trust property, can be held by a court as "constructive" trustee which entails liability for losses to the trust.

Trustee process

Truster
He who creates a trust. A convenient term used in the laws of Scotland.

Truth
The actual state of things.

Truth in lending
Statutes which provide that precise and meaningful cost of credit information be provided to the credit customer.

Tub
Measures. In mercantile law, a tub is a measure containing sixty pounds weight of tea; and from fifty-six to eighty-six pounds of camphor.

Tub-man
English law. A barrister who has a pre-audience in the Exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called.

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