Fides Servanda
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916