Fiduciary

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\ (? or ?), a. [L. fiduciarus, fr.
     fiducia: cf. F. fiduciaire. See {Fiducial}.]
     1. Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting;
        faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary
        obedience." --Howell.
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     2. Holding, held, or founded, in trust. --Spelman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\, n.
     1. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
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              Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon
              those whose fiduciaries they are.     --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without
        works; an Antinomian. --Hammond.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fiduciary
       adj : relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the
             holding of something in trust for another); "a
             fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity";
             "fiducial power" [syn: {fiducial}]
       n : a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is
           illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for
           personal gain"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "fiduciary":
     believable, colorable, conceivable, convictional, credible,
     depositary, depository, fiducial, held in pledge, held in trust,
     in escrow, in trust, pistic, plausible, reliable, tenable, trustee,
     trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable,
     unquestionable, worthy of faith
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FIDUCIARY. This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a 
  fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to 
  deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament. Merl. 
  Repert. h.t. But Pothier, Pand. vol. 22, h.t., says that fiduciarius heres 
  properly signifies the person to whom a testator has sold his inheritance, 
  under the condition that he should sell it to another. Fiduciary may be 
  defined to be, in trust, in confidence. 
       2. A fiduciary contract is defined to be, an agreement by which a 
  person delivers a thing to another, on the condition that he will restore it 
  to him. The following formula was employed:' Ut inter bonos agere opportet, 
  ne propter te fidemque tuam frauder. Cicer. de Offc. lib. 3, cap. 13; Lec. 
  du Dr. Civ. Rom. Sec. 237, 238. See 2 How. S. C. Rep. 202, 208; 6 Watts & 
  Serg. 18; 7 Watts, 415.