Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
cestui
[French "he who"] A beneficiary. - Also spelled cestuy.
cestui que trust
[Law French] One who possesses equitable rights in property and receives the rents, issues, and profits from it; BENEFICIARY. - Also termed fade-commissary; fidei-commissarius. Pl. cestuis que trust or (erroneously) cestuis que trustent.
cestui que use
The person for whose use and benefit property is being held by another, who holds the legal title to the property. Pl. cestuis que use or (erroneously) cestuis que usent. "The basis of this institution was the transfer of property to a trusted friend, who was to hold it not for personal benefit but for the purpose of carrying out the transferor's instructions. The person to whom the land was conveyed for this purpose was
cestui que vie
The person whose life measures the duration of a trust, gift, estate, or insurance contract. "[L]et us assume that A instead transfers 'to E for the life of A.' Since A has used his own life as the measuring life of E's estate, A has given away all that he had. Because E's estate is measured by the life of someone other than himself, his estate is called an estate par autre vie. A, whose life is the measuring life, is called the cestui que vie." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 36 (2d ed. 1984).