In old English law.* The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder on l reeholder
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In Roman law. The elder brother of an emancipated pupil-lus, whose father had died leaving him still under fourteen years of age
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The term is derived from the Roman law, and means (as a noun) a person holding the character of a trustee, or a character analogous to that of a trustee, in respect to the trust and confidence involved in it and the scrupulous good faith and can-dor which it requires. Thus, a person ij a fiduciary who is Invested with rights and powers to be exercised for the benefit of another person. Svanoe v. Jurgens, 144 111. 507, 33 N. E. 955; Stoll v. King, 8 How. Prnc. (N. ¥.) 299
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Lat Faith; honesty; confidence; trust; veracity; honor, occurring in the phrases “bona fldes,” (good faith,) “mala fldes,” (bad faith,) and “uberrima fldes,” (the utmost or most abundant good faith
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An adjective having the same meaning as “fiduciary;’’ as, in the phrase “public or fiducial ofiice.” Ky. St. § 3752; Moss v. Rowlett, 112 Ky. 121, 65 S. W. 153
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Lat To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old English law of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keeP that fealty which he bas sworn to the lord. Leg. Hen. I. c. 53
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In the clvil law. To order a thing upon one’s faith; to pledge one’s self; to become surety for another. Fide-jubes? Fide-jubeo: Do you pledge your-self? I do pledge myself. Inst 3, 16, 1. one of the forms of stipulation
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In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for the payment of another’s debt, by a stipulation which binds him to dlscharge it if the prin-cipal debtor fails to do so. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 452 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 108
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In the civil law thls term corresponds nearly to our “cestui que trust.” It designates a person who has the real or beneficlal Interest in an estate or fund, the title or administration of which is temporarily confided to another. See Story, Eq. Jur. | 966
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In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property
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Founded on a fiction; having the character of a flctlon; false, feigned, or pretended
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A term derived from the Latin “fldci-commissartus,” and oc-casionally used by writers on equity juris-prudence as a substitute for the law French term “cestui que trust,” as being more ele-gant and euphonious. See Brown v. Brown, 83 Hun, 160, 31 N. Y. Supp. 650
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In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law
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An assumptlon or supposition of law that something which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts exists
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The value of grain in the different counties of Scotland, fixed year
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(Lat. “Let it be done.”) In Eng-llsh practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for the dolng of some legal act
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Sp. in Spanish law, trust, con-fldence, and correlatively a legal duty or ob-ligatiou arising therefrom. The term is suffl-clentiy broad lu meanlng to include both a general obligation and a restricted liability under a single Instrument Martinez v. Run-kle. 57 N. J. Law, 111, 30 Atl. 593. But in a special sense, it designates a surety or guarantor, or the contract or engagement of suretyship
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lu Scotch law. He that has the fee or feu. The proprietor is termed “fiar,” In contradistinction to the life-renter. 1 Kames, Eq. Pref. one whose projierty is charged with a life-rent
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In Spanish law. Feud or fee. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 2
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