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▪ I. trustee, n.|trʌsˈtiː|
Also 7 Sc. trustie.
[f. trust v. + -ee1.]
1. One who is trusted, or to whom something is entrusted; a person in whom confidence is put. rare. Obs., or merged in 3.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xiii. 249 It was the custome, when any person trusting would put his trustee to his oath, to bring him into the temple, and to make him sweare. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox i. 9 It was to change her child, in case shee were brought to bed of a girle, Cleorite (her Trustee) took the business upon her. 1671[R. MacWard] True Nonconf. 132 Suppose..the exact fidelity of the one trustie, to be notourly known. 1824Bentham Bk. Fallacies Wks. 1843 II. 413 In every public trust, the legislator should, for the purpose of prevention, suppose the trustee disposed to break the trust in every imaginable way in which it would be possible for him to reap..any personal advantage.
2. Law. spec. One to whom property is entrusted to be administered for the benefit of another; often loosely, one of a number of persons appointed to manage the affairs of an institution; also a member of the controlling body of a trust (trust n. 7 b).
1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored iv. xiv. 331 Scribes and Secretaries shall suffer detriment, and..Trustees [etc.]. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 386 The fourscore Pounds have bin since converted to other uses, through the Covetousness of the Trustees. 1695–6Act 7 & 8 Will. III, c. 30 §40 One Annuity..payable out of the Profittes..unto the most Noble Barbara Dutchesse of Cleveland or to her Trustees. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. x. 243 A clergyman could not..be..trustee to a child. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 333 Sir R. Worsley being seised in fee of the premises in question, devised them to trustees, upon trust that they should stand seised thereof to the use of his grandson. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 53 By these Acts the administration of all matters relating to the roads is vested in trustees. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 295, I am trustee for her property. 1902Fabian News XII. 38/2 Any attempt of a trustee of a corporation or trust to make a secret profit out of his position..should be punished.
b. In U.S. by extension, One in whose hands the property of a debtor is attached in a trustee process (see 4 and quots.).
[Cf.1758Stat. Massachusetts (1814) 614 Be it..enacted, that where no goods or effects of such absent or absconding person in the hands of his attorney, factor, agent or trustee,..can be come at so as to be attached [etc.]. 1794Stat. Massachusetts c. 65 §1 The goods, effects and credits of the principal, in the hands and possession of his trustee or trustees,..shall stand bound and be held to satisfy such judgment as the plaintiff shall recover against the principal. ]1811W. C. White Compend. Laws Massachusetts 1268 In this state there is a process given by statute..whereby a creditor may attach any property or credits of his debtor in the hands of a third person. This third person is called in the English law, the garnishee: in our law he is called the trustee. 1864in Webster.
3. transf. One who is held responsible for the preservation and administration of anything.
1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. ix. §4. 620 The Trustees and Stewards of the mysteries of God. 1682Dryden Medal Ep. Whigs ⁋2 You are not the trustees of the public liberty. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1767) I. 10 These dumb Monitors..had received a Charge to preserve their Names, and were the remaining Trustees of their Memory. 1897T. F. Bayard in Daily News 3 Mar. 10/4 The recognised trustees of the world's advancement and civilization.
4. attrib. and Comb., as trustee investor, trustee meeting; also trustee bank (in full trustee savings bank): see savings bank; so trustee banker; trustee investment: see trustee stock; trustee process, in U.S., a judicial process by which the goods, effects, and credits (but not the real estate) of a debtor may be attached while in the hands of a third person; in Eng. Law called foreign attachment; trustee security, trustee stock = trust-stock (trust n. 8 b).
1898Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 10/1 At that time [1861] there were 638 *trustee banks in existence.
1903Ibid. 11 Mar. 5/1 As for the great *trustee bankers, they are not in the least affected.
1895Daily News 30 Dec. 2/2 ‘A gilt-edge security’ or ‘quite a *trustee investment’.
1906Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 Neither of these advantages affects the private or *trustee investor.
1820Scott Monast. Introd. Ep., The laird..had to attend *trustee meetings, and lieutenancy meetings,..and what not.
1811W. C. White Compend. Laws Massachusetts 1268 In what cases, and against whom, a *trustee process will lie. 18..Laws Massachusetts (Bartlett), The suit may be commenced by the process of foreign attachment, or trustee process. 1860in Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v.
1898Westm. Gaz. 18 Nov. 8/1 The new capital required will be raised jointly..and will be a *trustee security.
1901Ibid. 29 Aug. 7/1 The failure of the issue..to be classed as a *Trustee stock.
Hence trusˈteeism (nonce-wd.), the system of vesting (church) patronage in trustees.
1889A. H. Drysdale Hist. Presbyt. Eng. 511 The evils of both family patronage and trusteeism. 1889Tablet 30 Nov. 878 A system of lay trusteeism.
[1.] [a.] For label read ‘Obs. rare, exc. as in 1 b or merged in 3’. b. A prison inmate to whom special privileges are granted for good conduct. Cf. trusty n. a. U.S.
1961in Webster. 1970J. V. Bennett I chose Prison ii. 26 They might be able to procure better-fitting shirts, for example, by bribing guards or trustees in the clothing office. 1979N. Mailer Executioner's Song (1980) ii. ii. 523 A trustee standing by a glass museum case was selling convict-made tooled leather belts to a group of tourists. 1982Forbes (N.Y.) 26 Apr. 54/1 They make them [sc. enlisted men] perform personal services for the NCOs. They are like trustees in a prison. 1986Los Angeles Times 28 June 24/2 The violence resulted in the deaths of three guards, two inmate-trustees and Jackson.
▪ II. trustee, v.|trʌsˈtiː|
[f. prec. n.]
1. a. trans. To place (a person or his property) in the hands of a trustee or trustees. b. intr. To act as a trustee. nonce-uses.
1818Blackw. Mag. III. 518 In my younger days, country gentlemen..made a shift to continue in the management of their own affairs..; but now the prevailing fashion, or rather passion is to get Trusteed with all possible expedition. 1909Ibid. Sept. 413/2 Trusteeing is an unprofitable business.
2. U.S.
a. To appoint (a person) trustee in the trustee process (see prec. 4), in order to restrain a debtor from collecting moneys due to him.
b. To attach (effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person.
1883Howells Woman's Reason I. ix. 164 You don't say you never was trusteed before? Ibid. 165 When they sent in their bill,..I didn't believe they'd really go so far as to trustee me. Ibid., I presume they'll be trusteein' all of you. I shall have to pay it now. 1898Westm. Gaz. 14 June 7/1 Yesterday his options were hastily closed, and his cash wheat trusteed.
Hence trusˈteed ppl. a. (in quot. absol.), trusˈteeing vbl. n.
1818Blackw. Mag. III. 518 The trusteed..secures all the pleasure, as well as the profit,..entirely to himself. 1883Howells Woman's Reason I. ix. 166 Do you think she liked your coming out about that trusteeing? |