Fiduciary Contract
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An agreement by which a person delivers a thing to another on the condition that he will restore it to him. The following formula was employed: Ut inter bonos agere oportet, ne propter te fidemque tuam frauda. Cicero de Offlc. lib.
3, c. 13; Lee. Dr. Civ. §§ 237, 238. See 2 How. (U. S.) 202, 208; 6 Watts & S. (Pa.) 18; 7 Watts (Pa.) 415.