cestui

Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation:/ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010

It is a Law French phrase of medieval English invention, which appears in the legal phrases cestui que trust, cestui que use, or cestui quevie.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010

Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation: /ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010

It is a Law French phrase of medieval English invention, which appears in the legal phrases cestui que trust, cestui que use, or cestui quevie.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology 2010

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., surveying the Erie scandals, expressed the idea that the corporate officer ought to be a “trustee—a guardian … Every shareholder … is his ward”; in the case of a railroad, “the community itself is his cestui que trust.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., surveying the Erie scandals, expressed the idea that the corporate officer ought to be a “trustee—a guardian … Every shareholder … is his ward”; in the case of a railroad, “the community itself is his cestui que trust.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., surveying the Erie scandals, expressed the idea that the corporate officer ought to be a “trustee—a guardian … Every shareholder … is his ward”; in the case of a railroad, “the community itself is his cestui que trust.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

So long ago as 1848 it was decided by the House of Lords in _Foley_ v. _Hill_, 2 H. of L. 28, that the real relation between banker and customer was that of debtor and creditor, not in any sense that of trustee and _cestui que trust_, or depositee and depositor, as had been formerly supposed and contended.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

"I am only a simple girl," murmured one of the orphans, with a nervous blush; "but does not a recent statute give trustees power to invest the funds of their _cestui que_ trusts in securities yielding a larger return than 2¾ Goschens?"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 Various

The cestui que trust or beneficiary has three remedies in the event of a breach of trust on the part of his trustee.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913