trust fund
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 25 U.S. 498 - Potter v. Gardner · 1827Most cited · 20 citing opinions
devise charged with debts
A testator cannot, by his will, withdraw from his creditors any property which the law subjects to their claims, but he may provide a particular fund for his debts, and if the creditors resort to a different fund, those to whom the property so taken by them was given, are entitled to compensation out of the fund provided for debts.
How often courts cite the case defining “trust fund”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “trust fund” — 18 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.