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Cestui que use

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Cestui que vie

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Uses

apparent or legal owner, backed by its irresistible sanctions. The person enjoying the beneficial right was called the cestui que use, or he to whose use the land was conveyed, and the person in possession, the feoffee

Lives

tenant pur autre [or auter] vie, and the person during whose life the lease is to last, the cestui que vie. By 18 & 19 Car. 2, there is a prima facie presumption of death after seven

Feoffee to uses

or feudal tenancy of the land was vested, the substantial and beneficial ownership or use being in the cestui qui use. The statute put an end to the estate of the feoffee to uses by transferring the

Trust

ex-pressly or impliedly in a person (hence called the trustee), for the benefit of another (hence called the cestui que trust, or beneficiary), not, however, issuing out of real or personal property, but as a collateral incident

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