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  • FIDEI-COMMISSARIUS
    In the civil law this term corresponds nearly to our "cestui que trust." It designates a person who has the real or beneficial interest in an estate or fund, the title or administration of which is temporarily confided to another. See Story, Eq. Jur. ? 966.
  • FIDEI-COMMISSUM
    In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property (usually by will) to a person, accompanied by a request or direction of the donor that the recipient will transfer the property to another, the latter being a person not capable of taking directly under the will More...
  • FIDE-JUBERE
    In the civil law. To order a thing upon one's faith; to pledge one's self; to become surety for another. Fide-jubest Fide-jubeo: Do you pledge yourself? I do pledge myself. Inst 3, 16, 1. One of the forms of stipulation.
  • FIDE-JUSSOR
    In Roman law. A guarantor; one who becomes responsible for the payment of another's debt by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it if the principal debtor fails to do so. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 452; 3 Bl. Comm. 108. The sureties taken on the arrest of a defendant More...
  • FIDE-PROMISSOR
    See FIDE-JUSSOR.
  • FIDELITAS
    Lat. Fealty, (q. v.) Fidolitas. Do nullo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagiii fit tunes indo fidolitatis saoramentum. Co. Litt 676. Fealty. For no tenement which is held for a term is there the oath of homage, but there is the oath of fealty.
  • FIDELITY INSURANCE
    See INSURANCE.
  • FIDEM MENTIRI
    Lat. To betray faith or fealty. A term used in feudal and old English law of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keep that fealty which he bas sworn to the lord. Leg. Hen. I. c 53.
  • FIDES
    Lat. Faith; honesty; confidence; trust; veracity; honor. Occurring in the phrases "bona fides" (good faith,) "mala fidest" (bad faith,) and "uberrima fides," (the utmost or most abundant good faith.) Fides est obligatio oonscientise alieu-jus ad intentionom alterius. Bacon. A trust is an obligation of conscience of one to the will More...
  • FIDUCIA
    In Roman law. An early form of mortgage, or pledge, in which both the title and possession of tbe property were passed to the creditor by a formal act of sale, (properly with the solemnities of the transaction known as mancipatto,) there being at the same time an express or More...
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