Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law)
   A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to
   be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals,
   or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for
   the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the
   effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
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   Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may
      attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the
      hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the
      process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or
      factorizing process. [U. S.]
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	Trustee \Trus*tee"\, v. t.
   1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to
      trustee an estate.
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   2. (Law) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in
      the hands of a third person) in the interest of the
      creditor. [U. S.]
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	trustee
    n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property
         is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee,
         legal guardian]
    2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]

	

	39 Moby Thesaurus words for "trustee":
   accepter, accountant, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor,
   beholder, bookkeeper, bursar, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain,
   comptroller, consignee, controller, curator, depositary,
   depository, fiduciary, financial officer, getter, hearer, holder,
   liquidator, listener, looker, obtainer, payee, paymaster, procurer,
   purse bearer, purser, receiver, recipient, spectator, steward,
   taker, treasurer, viewer

	

	TRUSTEE, estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in 
trust. 
     2. The trust estate is not subject to the specialty or judgment debts 
of the trustee, to the dower of his wife, or the curtesy of the husband of a 
female trustee. 
     3. With respect to the duties of trustees, it is held, in conformity to 
the old law of uses, that pernancy of the profits, execution of estates, and 
defence of the land, are the three great properties of a trust, so that the 
courts of chancery will compel trustees, 1. To permit the cestui que trust 
to receive the rents and profits of the land. 2. To execute such 
conveyances, in accordance with the provisions of the trust, as the cestui 
que trust shall direct. 3. To defend the title of the land in any court of 
law or equity. Cruise, Dig. tit. 12, c. 4, s. 4. 
     4. It has been judiciously remarked by Mr. Justice Story, 2 Eq. Jur. 
Sec. 1267, that in a great variety of cases, it is not easy to say what the 
duty of a trustee is; and that therefore, it often becomes indispensable for 
him, before he acts, to seek, the aid and direction of a court of equity. 
Fonb. Eq. book 2, c. 7, Sec. 2, and note c. Vide Vin. Ab. tit. Trusts, O, P, 
Q, R, S, T; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.