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Cestuy Que Use

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Fr. [Cestuy a Vuse de qui; Lat. ille cujus usui, or ad cujus usum.'] He to whose use another is enfeoffed of lands or tenements.

Cowell. 2 Bl. Com. 328—333. 4 Kent's Com. 289 — 296. 1 Steph. Com. 332.

The substantial and beneficial owner, as distinguished from the feoffee to uses. Id. See use, Feoffee to uses.