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CESTUI. He. This word is frequently used in composition as, cestui que trust, cestui que vie, &c.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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328: "In our law, a use might be ranked under the rights of the second kind; being a confidence reposed in another who was tenat of the land, or terre--tenant, that he should disposed of the land according to the intentions or cestuy que use, or him whose it was granted and suffer him to take the profits'.

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(54) Lord Eldon's last remarks on the point were reported in Downes v Grazebrook: '[A trustee] cannot, without the express authority of his cestuy que trust, have any thing to do with the trust property as a purchaser'.