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Fide-Commissary

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A term derived from the Latin "fldei-commissarius," and occasionally used by writers on equity jurisprudence as a substitute for the law French term "cestui que trust," as being more elegant and euphonious.

See Brown v. Brown, 83 Hun, 160, 31 N. Y. Supp. 650.