| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1076 pages
...introduction to his work on Trustees (at p. 1), defines a trustee as, in the widest meaning of the term, "A person in whom some estate, interest or power in or affecting property of any description is vested for the benefit of another." And he says that that definition also extends... | |
| E. Chandos Leigh, Lewis William Cave - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 696 pages
...Trustees (c) it is said that, " a trustee, in the widest meaning of the term, may be defined to be, a person, in whom some estate, interest or power in or affecting property of any description is vested for the benefit (a) 8 Bing. 394. c. 54, s. 1, by the 24 & 25 Viet. (b)... | |
| Henry Nichols Blake, Montana. Supreme Court, Cornelius Hedges (Reporter), Horace Riverside Buck (Reporter), Fletcher Maddox (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 760 pages
...held them for the benefit of others. His position was analogous to that of a receiver. " A trustee is a person in whom some estate, interest, or power in or affecting property of any description is vested for the benefit of another." Hill. on Trust. 65. Lomme had, perhaps, no... | |
| Jairus Ware Perry - Trusts and trustees - 1882 - 744 pages
...public and private corporations, all exercise a kind of trust. Indeed, one definition of a trustee is " a person in whom some estate, interest, or power in or affecting property of any description is vested for the benefit of anothep." This definition embraces all the trusts and... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 732 pages
...An agent represents and * acts for his*principal, who may be either a natural or artificial person. A trustee may be defined generally as a person in...is bound, no one is bound, for he has no principal. The trust estate cannot promise; the contract is therefore the personal undertaking of the trustee.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1108 pages
...Craig is based, and cites a number of other cases upon the subject, and, among other things, eald: "When a trustee contracts as such, unless he is bound, no one is bound, for he has no principal. The trust estate cannot promise; the mn tract is therefore the personal undertaking of the trustee.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1132 pages
...The doctrine is also very clearly stated in Taylor v. Davis, 11U US 335, 4 Sup. Ct. Hep. 147, thus: "When a trustee contracts as such, unless he is bound, no one is bound, for he has no principal. The trust-estate cannot promise. The contract is therefore the personal undertaking of the trustee.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1166 pages
...Introduction to his work on Trustees (page 1), defines a "trusteee" as, in the widest meaning of the term, "a person In whom some estate, interest, or power in or affecting property of any description is vested for the benefit of another." And he says that that definition also extends... | |
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