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

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property (usually by will) to a person, accompanied by a request or direction of the donor that the recipient will transfer the property to another, the latter being a person not capable of taking directly under the will or gift.

See Succession of Meunier, 52 La. Ann. 79, 26 South. 776, 48 In R. A. 77; Gortario v. Cantu, 7 Tex. 44.