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Beneficiary

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A persoa entitled to the tate; a cestui que trust, v. Cestui Beneflcium,/. in old English law. clericale: the clerical privilege; In Scots law. A benefit, favor or tise: the privilege of competency. privilege of division. Beneficium V. infra. In the civil law. A benefit or favor ficium competentise: the privilege which the grantor of a gratuitous he might retain sufficient for the ob Ugation, he was reduced ionis: the privilege of division; a be was entitled to demand that the sureties pro rata. Beneficium the privilege of a surety to require remedy against the principal. In the feudal law. A benefice; a same with what was afterwards