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Definition of Fiduciary duty
1. Noun. The legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiduciary Duty
Literary usage of Fiduciary duty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1905)
"Stockholders' Suit for Breach of fiduciary duty by Directors.—Cases are to be
found which assert that courts of equity, by virtue of their general equitable ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law in Relation to Promoters and the Promotion of Corporations by Arthur Martineau Alger (1897)
"When such relation exists between promoters and shareholders, former liable to
latter in damages for breach of fiduciary duty to them. § 128. Brewster v. ..."
3. Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Equitable Remedies by John Norton Pomeroy (1905)
"Stockholders' Suit for Breach of fiduciary duty by Directors.—Cases are to be
found which assert that courts of equity, by virtue of their general equitable ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"We must go to still other cases, founded", it may be, to some extent, upon similar
ideas of fiduciary duty, to discover even an approximate authority. ..."
5. Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Private Corporations by Edward Henry Warren (1909)
"(103 NY 58), in which the directors contracting had a private and personal
interest, possibly adverse to their fiduciary duty. Almost, if not quite all, ..."
6. A Selection of Cases on Private Corporations by Jeremiah Smith (1902)
"(103 NY 58), in which the directors contracting had a private and personal
interest, possibly adverse to their fiduciary duty. Almost, if not quite all, ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"... because it assumes that the purchaser intended to act in pursuance of his
fiduciary duty and not in violation of it.2 1. Who Is Such Fiduciary. ..."
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