Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\ (? or ?), a. [L. fiduciarus, fr.
   fiducia: cf. F. fiduciaire. See Fiducial.]
   1. Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting;
      faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary
      obedience." --Howell.
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   2. Holding, held, or founded, in trust. --Spelman.
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	Fiduciary \Fi*du"ci*a*ry\, n.
   1. One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
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            Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon
            those whose fiduciaries they are.     --Jer. Taylor.
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   2. (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without
      works; an Antinomian. --Hammond.
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	fiduciary
    adj 1: relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the
           holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary
           contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power"
           [syn: fiduciary, fiducial]
    n 1: a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it
         is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for
         personal gain"

	

	23 Moby Thesaurus words for "fiduciary":
   believable, colorable, conceivable, convictional, credible,
   depositary, depository, fiducial, held in pledge, held in trust,
   in escrow, in trust, pistic, plausible, reliable, tenable, trustee,
   trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable,
   unquestionable, worthy of faith

	

	FIDUCIARY. This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a 
fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to 
deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament. Merl. 
Repert. h.t. But Pothier, Pand. vol. 22, h.t., says that fiduciarius heres 
properly signifies the person to whom a testator has sold his inheritance, 
under the condition that he should sell it to another. Fiduciary may be 
defined to be, in trust, in confidence. 
     2. A fiduciary contract is defined to be, an agreement by which a 
person delivers a thing to another, on the condition that he will restore it 
to him. The following formula was employed:' Ut inter bonos agere opportet, 
ne propter te fidemque tuam frauder. Cicer. de Offc. lib. 3, cap. 13; Lec. 
du Dr. Civ. Rom. Sec. 237, 238. See 2 How. S. C. Rep. 202, 208; 6 Watts & 
Serg. 18; 7 Watts, 415.