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{{a|people|}}One who holds the [[beneficial interest]] in something to which it has [[legal title]] on {{tag|trust}} for someone else (that someone else being a “[[beneficiary]]”). In {{tag|English law}}, a [[trust]] has no [[legal personality]] distinct from the [[trustee]] who constitutes it; in America and other far-flung places the trust itself (as distinct from its [[Trustee|trustees]]) has its own [[Ontological certainty|ontological]] identity and may sue and be sued.
{{a|trust|}}One who holds the [[beneficial interest]] in something to which it has [[legal title]] on {{tag|trust}} for someone else (that someone else being a “[[beneficiary]]”). In {{tag|English law}}, a [[trust]] has no [[legal personality]] distinct from the [[trustee]] who constitutes it; in America and other far-flung places the trust itself (as distinct from its [[Trustee|trustees]]) has its own [[Ontological certainty|ontological]] identity and may sue and be sued.


Known on the continent (though they hotly deny it) as a “[[fiduciary]]”.
Known on the continent (though they hotly deny it) as a “[[fiduciary]]”.