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Promoter

of a company under the Companies Acts, are called the promoters. In many respects promoters stand in a fiduciary capacity towards the company which they are engaged in forming, see Twycross v. Grant, (1877) 2 CPD 469;

Pr'tor fidei-commissarius

Pr'tor fidei-commissarius, the judge at Rome who enforced the performance of all fiduciary obliga-tions and confidence. See 1 Steph. Com.

Self-dealing

Self-dealing, means the participation in a transaction that benefits oneself instead of another who is owed a fiduciary duty, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364

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Trust

master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the accused, State v. K.P. Jain, (1983) 2 Crimes 947 (All). Trust, is

Trustee

who, having legal title to property, holds it in trust for the benefit of another and owes a fiduciary duty to that beneficiary, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1519. Trustee, one entrusted with property for the

trust fund doctrine

held as a trust fund for the benefit of shareholders and creditors and that corporate officers have a fiduciary duty to deal with them properly

Usu est dominium fiduciarium

Usu est dominium fiduciarium. Bacon's Read. Stat. Uses.-(Use is a fiduciary dominion.)

Account or Accompt

Stated and settled accounts may be investigated and reopened by the Court on the ground of fraud or fiduciary relationships. See SURCHARGE and FALSIFY. Companies under the Companies Act, 1929, must keep proper books of account, and

principal

his or her general control or instruction : one from whom an agent derives authority to act compare fiduciary b : one who commits a crime or instigates, encourages, or assists another to commit it esp. when

trust

trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who

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