FIDE-COMMITTEE

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 been, a

fidei-committee, seems, literally speaking, to mean one who is committed to the good faith of

another.” Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 226 n.1

(1823).[Blacks Law 8th]