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Cestui Que Trust

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

He for whose benefit another person is seized of lands or tenements, or is possessed of personal property. He who has a right to a beneficial interest in and out of an estate the legal title to which is vested in another.

2 Washb. Real Prop. 163.

Judge Story suggests (1 Eq. Jur. § 321) that the word "beneficiary" be substituted for cestui que trust, and this term has come into very general use as such a substitute.