Fides Servanda
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Good faith must be observed.
1 Mete. (Mass.) B51; 3 Barb. (N. Y.) 323, 330; 23 Barb. (N. Y.) 521, 524.
FIDES SERVANDA EST; SIMPLICITAS juris genitum praevaleat. Good faith is to be preserved; the simplicity of the law of nations should prevail.
Story, Bills, § 15.
FIDUCIA (Lat.) In civil law. A contract by which we sell a thing to some one — ^that is, transmit to him the property of the thing, with the solemn forms of emancipation — on condition that he will sell it back to us. This species of contract took place in the emancipation of children, in testaments, and in pledges. Poth. ad Pand.