2. Verb. (third-person singular of trust) ¹
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Definition of Trusts
1. trust [v] - See also: trust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trusts
Literary usage of Trusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The trusts are not the menace to democracy that they have been pictured; ...
It appears that we cannot crush the trusts if we would, for the trusts ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1901)
"LECTURE LXL OF USES AND trusts. l. Of Uses. — A use is where the legal estate of
lands is in A., in trust, that B. shall take the profits, and that A. will ..."
3. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1907)
"Monopoly power of trusts. § 6. Economy of large capital no sufficient ...
Tariff as the foster-mother of trusts. § 9. The railroads as supports of trusts. ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"The Pageant of the Throne-Powers—The Smelter-Trust—A General Glance at the trusts.
THE SMELTER-TRUST now approaches in the procession of the throne-powers. ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Nearly every one of the trusts were organized in this manner. Most of the trusts
issued two kinds of stock, preferred stock usually calling for seven per ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The doctrine of resulting trusts has no application when there is an express ...
For other cases, see trusts, Cent. Dig. { 114; Dec. Dig. f 80.*] 6. ..."
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