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Definition of Fiduciary relation

1. Noun. The legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiduciary Relation

Literary usage of Fiduciary relation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"fiduciary relation exists between the parties, and the duty rests upon the defendant to render an account" The court also quoted with approval the following ..."

2. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Occupies fiduciary relation—A trustee stands to creditors in a fiduciary relation.91 In re Wrisley Co., 13 ABR 193. 133 Fed. ..."

3. Handbook of Equity Jurisprudence by James Webster Eaton (1901)
"A gift inter vivos to one in a fiduciary relation with the donor is regarded with ... It is apparent that a gift to a person in a fiduciary relation is a ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare: With Explanations of the Legal Terms by Edward Joseph White (1911)
"Trust, from fiduciary relation. ... In other words, there is a double trust arising, because of the fiduciary relation existing, of kinsman and subject, ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"Burden of proof as between persons in a fiduciary relation.—The rule is that the burden of proof is always upon the party alleging a fraud; but there is one ..."

6. The Law Relating to the Sale of Goods and Commercial Agency by Robert Campbell (1881)
"Unless the There are indeed cases in which the fiduciary relation alone itself» breach of js sufficient to make a transaction voidable. ..."

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