X.O 
-ptr^,'- trust 
In ulU which a man doth not well inn Iceland, it i good 
In leivr them to some friend of trunt and jndKiuent. 
Bacon, Suitors (ed. 1887). 
There Is not 
In any rourt of Christendom a man 
Kor quality or trttxt more absolute. 
/'"/ 1 1 >\ c 1 * Sacrifice, i. 2. 
Active or special trust (In >"' ' called necessary 
IriiHl), a tniNt In which the trustee is clothed with some 
.letual powiTi.l iliHpoMtion iir management which eannot 
lie properly exercised without his having the legal estate 
ana right of actual possession: as dintin^iiislied from a 
nut/I. (ni*f, mi /,! I IfiKl , i>i ;i..'.wY< tru*t (in S<-"tx /-ri/'calleil 
jtroprietary trust), where lln hn lie i intrniled to be 
m. rely a figurehead to hold the apparent title, leaving the 
use or control t<> the beneficiary. Naked or passive trusts 
in land arc now generally superseded by the rule (Intro- 
duced originally by the statute of uses (see use), and ex- 
tended in tlie( r nitcd States by statutes of trusts)that, when 
i peiMin attempt* to create such a trust, no estate vests 
In the inisiee, Imt the entire and absolute estate vests In 
the intended hcncMciary.- Breach Of trust. See breach. 
Charitable Trusts Acts, see r/mninbl,: Con- 
structive trust, the legal relation similar to an ex- 
press trust which arises upon circumstances which ought 
in equity to be dealt with as if there were a trust, irre- 
spective of whether one was Intended or not : thus, where 
a guardian transfers property of the ward without re- 
ceiving an equivalent, the person receiving it may be 
made accountable as holding in trust for the ward by 
construction of law, irrespective of whether he intended 
to receive it for the ward's benefit or not. Declara- 
tion of trust. See declaration Deed of trust. See 
deed. Executed trust, (a) Technically, an express 
trust the objects and administration of which are so fully 
designated as to require no further act on the part of the 
creator of the trust to define the duty of the trustee, as 
distinguished from an executory trust, or one in which the 
instrument of creation reserves the declaration of the uses 
or some part thereof for further instructions, (b) A trust 
is also said to be executed when the trustee has performed 
his entire duty. (IT) When the instrument creating a trust 
in land has the effect by virtue of the statute of uses of 
vesting the entire estate In the intended beneficiary, the 
trust is said to be executed by the statute. Express trust, 
a trust which is created or declared in express terms, ana 
usually, but not always, In writing, as distinguished from 
an implied trust, or one the existence of which is inferred 
from the conduct of the parties or the circumstances of 
the case. The phrase implied trust is sometimes loosely, 
hut not improperly, applied to those constructive trusts In 
which there may be circumstances indicating that perhaps 
the parties intended a trust rather than a fraud. Im- 
plied trust. See express trust. In trust, as a trust ; as 
a charge ; for safe-keeping, or for the use of another to 
whom account is due. Loan and trust company. See 
ini n I,-, 4. Naked trust, a nominal or ostensible trust; 
a trust in which the trustee is not clothed with the right 
of possession or control. By the statute of uses, such 
trusts In land are executed, that Is to say, the legal title is 
declared by law to be In the beneficiary, who has the right 
of possession and control, notwithstanding the contrary 
Intent of the Instrument creating the trust On trust, 
on credit; without present payment or security for pay- 
ment : as, to buy on trust; to conduct one's business on 
trust. Passive trust. See active trust. Private trusts. 
See pricale. Proprietary trust. See active trust. 
Public trust, sec public. Resulting trust, a trust 
which is conclusively Implied by rules ol law from given 
circumstances; more specifically, that species of con- 
structive trust which arises in favor of one who pays the 
price for real property on its conveyance to another. 
When one person obtained title to land for a considera- 
tion paid by another, the courts of chancery thus held the 
former to be a trustee of the property for the latter. By 
statute in many of the United States this result Is pre- 
cluded, except where the person paying is ignorant that 
the title is so taken, or where the claim to reach the prop- 
erty is made by his creditors. Special trust. See 
special. Spendthrift trust, a trust authorizing the 
trustees to pay the income for life to one person, the 
principal being given over to another on his death : so 
called under systems of law, as in Pennsylvania, which 
protect such income against claims of creditors. To 
run in trust', to run in debt; get credit. Webster. 
Trust certificate, one of the certificates issued by the 
committee of trustees formed for the control of several 
corporations, showing the Interest on profits accepted 
by one who was a stockholder In one of such corpora- 
tions, upon surrendering his stock. See def. 7. Trust 
deed, a conveyance in trust. More specifically (o) A 
deed by a debtor conveying property to a person as 
trustee for payment of his debts, (b) A deed conveying 
property to a creditor in trust to sell and pay himself 
ana restore the residue: a kind of mortgage. Trust 
estate, an estate under the management of a trustee or 
trustees; or an estate given to be held In trust. Trust 
ex maleficlo, any constructive trust arising by reason 
of wrong-doing or Intentional fraud on the part of the 
person charged as trustee, as where an attorney obtains 
title to his client's property in violation of duty. = Syn. 
1 and 2. Faith, credence, assurance, dependence, expecta- 
tion. 
II. a. Held in trust: as, trust property; trust 
money. 
trust 1 (trust), r. [Also, in a sense now differ- 
entiated, tryst, q. v. ; < ME. trusten, trosten, also 
tnmtii = M 1). l'). troosfen = MLG. trosten = OHG. 
trosten, MHG. tra>sten, G. trosten, comfort, eon- 
sole, = Icel. ti-ri/xtii, refl., trust to, rely on, = 
Sw. triistu, comfort, = Dan. tn'iste, comfort, for- 
tn'iste, confide; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. 
To place or repose confidence in (a person); 
rely upon ; depend upon. 
Not withstondcng I wote wele what ye rnene, 
But (route me wele it goo not as ye wene. 
Gcntrydo (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1624. 
409 
i;-, I :: 
I have a mistress, and she has a heart, 
Slie si)*; hut, triint me. it is shin.-, ho lietltT. 
Ilrau. ami /'/., M.ii.l H Tragedy, I. 1. 
You would have trutttd me 
Once, but the time is alter'd. 
/<ran. mi'/ /'/., Maid's Tragedy, Iv. 2. 
To him thus Nestor: Trust the powVs above, 
\<T think pioii'l Hector's hopes contlrm'd by Jove. 
Pope, Iliad, x. 114. 
The lower races . . . can seldom In -trn,!,-,! In their sto- 
ries of long-past ages. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 35. 
2. To believe; credit; receive with credence, 
as a statement, assertion, or the like. 
Whim Irittrlh this Y holde him wode (mull. 
I'aUadiui, Husbondrle(E. E. T. S.), p. 31. 
If he be credulous and trust my tale, 
I'll make him glad to seem Vlncentlo. 
Shale., T. of the 8., Iv. 2. 67. 
3. To intrust: with iritli before the object con- 
li.leil. 
I will rather trust a Flemmlng with my butter. 
Shak., M. W. of W., II. 2. 816. 
Whom with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, 
Now to suspect Is vain. Dryden. 
4. To commit, consign, or allow with confi- 
dence ; permit to be in some place, position, or 
company, or to do some particular thing, with- 
out misgiving or fear of consequences : as, to 
trust one's self to another's guidance. 
I wonder men dare (nut themselves with men. 
Shak., T. of A., L 2. 44. 
Fool'd and beguiled ; by him thou, I by thee, 
To trust thee from my side. Milton, P. L., x. 881. 
I did not choose to trust these letters with our Iwatman. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 108. 
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to 
any custody but that of a man-of-war. Macatday. 
5. To give credit to ; supply with goods or some- 
thing of value in the expectation of future pay- 
ment. 
He that is a great gamester may be trusted for a quarter's 
board at all times. Deleter, Gull's Hornbook, p. 126. 
It was your old mercer Shortyard, that you turned off a 
year ago, because he would trust you no longer. 
Vanbruffh, Journey to London, iv. 1. 
6. To entertain a lively hope; feel sure ; expect 
confidently : followed by a clause. 
And we trusted to haue reched to ye Yle of Melyda for 
our herboroughe the same nyght, but the wynde was so 
scarse that we were put bak to the Yle of Medzo. 
Sir It. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 74. 
Oh yet we trust that somehow good 
Will be the final goal of 111. 
Tennyson, In Memoriain, llv. 
IJ. intrans. 1. To repose confidence; place 
faith or reliance ; rely : with on or in. 
But who may beste blglle If hym liste 
Than he on whom men weneth best to trifle. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1267. 
He Is a morefoole then any mute best 
That trustith on the [fortune], or in thy behest! 
Horn, of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), I. 270. 
Trust in the Lord, and do good. Ps. xxxvil. 3. 
Alb. Well, yon may fear too far. 
/.'mi. safer than tr'att too far. 
Shak., Lear, 1. 4. 351. 
2. To give credit for something due; sell on 
credit: as, to trust recklessly. 
Should we see the value of a German prince's ransom 
gorgeously attiring each of our belle-dames, if neither mer- 
chant, butcher, brewer, . . . would trust f 
Brooke, Fool of Quality, xvl. 
To trust to (or unto t, to depend or rely on ; have confi- 
dence in. 
The men of Israel . . . trusted unto the Hers in wait. 
Judges xx. 36. 
The mouse that always trust* to one poor hole 
Can never be a mouse of any soul. 
Pope, Wife of Bath, I. 298. 
Bunyan had a trade to which he could trust, and the 
young woman had been trained up in the way she should 
go. Southey, Bunyan, p. 14. 
trust-t. An obsolete spelling of trussed, preterit 
and past participle of truss, 
trustee (trus-te'), [< trust 1 + -eel.'} i. A 
person to whom property or funds have been 
committed in the belief and trust that he will 
hold and apply the same for the benefit of those 
who are entitled, according to an expressed in- 
tention, either by the parties themselves, or by 
the deed, will, settlement, or arrangement o'f 
another; also, by extension, a person held ac- 
countable as if he were expressly a trustee in 
law. Compare niiiirilinii. i'. 
I have made over all my Wealth to these 
Honest Gentlemen ; they are my Trustees. 
Ktherege, Love in a Tub, Epll. 
Philip's mother's trustee was answerable to Philip for 
his property. Thackeray, Philip, xvi. 
Their (the clergy's) gigantic wealth was in a great de- 
gree due to the legacies of those who regarded them as 
the trustees of the poor. Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 89. 
trusty 
2. In tin- I'nitfd Sliiti's, n ]!. mi in v, 
hitiiils the rlTei'ts of another an- attached in 
tin\tii /Him i ~i-c the phi-.-iM- lieluwj. Trustee 
Churches Act. see ,-hnrrii. Trustee of bankrupt's 
estate. Same Mas*iynrcintia>Jmiptctt(*iii<)i - , meter 
assignee).- Trustee process, a HK>- i 'iientof 
right!* of action of a debtor or property belonging t him 
in the hands of a third person, by making tl< 
him or the third person, as the case may be, a party to th. 
proceedings, so as to charge him with the money or the 
property as a trust for the attaching creditor of the debt- 
or (equivalent to the process known In Kngllsh law u 
foreign attachment). It is called trustee process In some 
Jurisdictions, as distinguishing It from attachments which 
.n to the length of taking the aald property or fund into 
the actual custody of the law by seizure. 
trustee (trus-te'), r. /. [< trustee, .] To at- 
tach by a trustee process. See truster, n., 3. 
trusteeship (trus-te 'ship), M. [< trustee + 
-uli ili.'] The office or functions of a trustee, 
truster (trus'ter), H. [< trust 1 + -cr 1 .] 1. One 
who trusts or relies, or who accepts a thing as 
true ; a believer. 
Nor shall you do mine ear that violence 
To make It truster of your own report 
Against yourself. Shak., Hamlet, i. >. 172. 
2. One who trusts or gives credit ; a creditor. 
Bankrupt*, hold fast; 
Rather than render back, out with your knives, 
And cut your trusters' throats ! 
Shak., T. of A., Iv. 1. 10. 
3. Tn .svvifx line, one who grants a trust deed: 
the correlative of trustee. 
trustful (trust 'ful), . [< trustl + -fill.] 1. 
Full of trust; confiding: as, a person of a trust- 
ful disposition. 
Consider, again, how much that is loveable and praise- 
worthy and energetic for good In Individuals springs from 
the trustful and affectionate element in our nature. 
a. X. Oxcnham, Short Studies, p. 263. 
2f. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty. SUini- 
litirst. 
trustfully (trust'ful-i), adv. In a trustful man- 
ner. 
trustfulness (trust'ful-nes), H. The state or 
character of being trustful. 
trustlly (trus'ti-li), adv. [< ME. truslily, tris- 
tiliclie; < trusty + -ly' 2 .] 1. In a trusty mau- 
uer. (a) Faithfully ; honestly. 
Thus having her restored trustily, 
As he had vow'd, some small continuance 
He there did make. Spenser, F. ()., VI. ill. 19. 
('in On trustworthy information ; with certainty. 
Then I sent for the printer of this book, . . . requiring 
him that I might have some servant of his to watch him 
[a suspected person] faithfully that day, that I might un- 
derstand trustily to what place he would repair at night 
unto. Harmon, Caveat for Cursetora, p. 59. 
(et) Courageously ; stoutly. 
Than turned thel titli ajen <t trustili gon figt. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), I. 3904. 
trustiness (trus'ti-nes), M. The quality of be- 
ing trusty; especially, that quality of a person 
by which he deserves the confidence of others; 
fidelity; faithfulness; honesty. 
If the good qualities which lie dispersed among other 
ereatures, innocence in a sheep, trustiness In a dog, are 
singly commendable, how excellent Is the mind which en- 
nobles them into virtues ! K. Grew, Cosmologla Sacra. 
trusting (trus'ting), ji. n. Trustful ; confiding, 
trustingly (trus'ting-li), adr. In a trusting 
manner; with trust or implicit confidence, 
trustless (trust'les), a. [< trust 1 + -less.] Not 
worthy of trust; unfaithful; delusive; treach- 
erous. 
To catche ech trutUeste traytor, see thou faythfull doe re- 
mayne. llabees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 101. 
O ! IrustlesM state of miserable men, 
That bullde your htU on hope of earthly thing. 
Spenser, Ruins of Time, 1. 197. 
The trustless wings of false desire. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 2. 
trustlessness (trust'les-nes), n. The state or 
character of being trustless; unworthiness of 
trust. 
trustworthiness (trust'wer'THi-nes), . The 
state or character of being trustworthy. 
The properties which constitute trustuvrthinea In a 
mass of evidence are two, correctness and completeness. 
Bentham, Judicial Evidence, I. ii. 
In the trial of Reason versus Perception, Reason claims 
superior truttuvrthiness. 
H. Spencer, Prln. of Psycho!., | 391. 
trustworthy (tnist'wer'THi), a. [< iriufl + 
inirtlii/.'] Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty; 
reliable ; that may be relied on. 
The greatest advantage which a government can ponen 
is to be the one tnittuvrthy government in the midst of 
Kovernments which nobody can trust. 
Macaulau, Lord Olive. 
= Syn. Faithful, honest. 
trusty (trus'ti i. ./. iiml ii. [< ME. triixti/. frosty, 
ixti/. tri-xty (=Dan. troatig, confident); < trust 1 
