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fidejussion (fI-di-j<<schwa>>sh-<<schwa>>n). [fr. Latin fidejussio] Roman law. An act by which a person becomes an additional security for another. • The act does not remove the principal’s liability but only adds to the surety’s security. Fidejussion was one of the three types of adpromission, and the only type remaining in Justinian’s law. — Also spelled…

fidejubere (fI-dee-y<<schwa>>-beer-ee), vb. [Latin] Roman law. To become a surety. • Forms of this word were spoken by the parties to a stipulatio that bound one party to become a surety for the other; the first party asked, “Do you pledge yourself?” (“fidejubesne?”), and the second responded, “I do pledge myself” (“fidejubeo”). See STIPULATIO.[Blacks Law…

fideicommissum (fI-dee-I-k<<schwa>>-mis-<<schwa>>m). [Latin]. 1.Roman law. A direction to an heir asking the heir as a matter of good faith to give some part of the inheritance, such as a particular object, or all the inheritance, to a third party. • A fideicommissum was a device to overcome some of the technicalities of the Roman will.…

fideicommissary substitution. 1.SUBSTITUTION(6).2.SUBSTITUTION(7).[Blacks Law 8th]

fideicommissary heir.See HEIR.[Blacks Law 8th]

fidei-commissary (fI-dee-I-kom-<<schwa>>-ser-ee). See CESTUI QUE TRUST.[Blacks Law 8th]

fidei-commissarius. See CESTUI QUE TRUST.[Blacks Law 8th]

fidei-commissarius. See CESTUI QUE TRUST.[Blacks Law 8th]

fideicomiso (fee-day-koh-mee-soh).Mexican law. A trust; esp., a trust that is established for the purpose of acquiring property in Mexico with a Mexican bank as trustee and a non-Mexican (who may be the settlor) as beneficiary. • The property is held in the name of the trust, but the beneficiary has all the rights and obligations…

fide-committee. A beneficiary; CESTUI QUE TRUST. — Also termed fidei-commissarius. “In a particular case, a cestuy que trust is called by the Roman law, fideicommissarius. In imitation of this, I have seen him somewhere or other called in English a fide-committee. This term, however, seems not very expressive. A fide-committee, or, as it should have…