Cestui que use, a term in Law French, refers to the person for whose benefit property is held by another person. In modern times, these arrangements are handled by trust law, and this term (as well as the related term cestui que trust) is no longer used. The modern term is beneficiary. Before the advent of trust law, however, this purpose was accomplished by the use. Law French is an archaic language based on Norman and Anglo-Norman. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The word trustee (sometimes referred to as a cestui que trust in the formal legal French) is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of some other beneficiary. ... A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. ... Use, as a term in real property law of common law countries, amounts to a recognition of the duty of a person, to whom property has been conveyed for certain purposes, to carry out those purposes. ...
This word is frequently used in composition as, cestuique trust, cestuique vie, &c.
The cestuique trust is entitled to receive the rents and profits of the land; he may direct such conveyances, consistent with the trust, deed or will, as he shall choose, and the trustee (q.
He to whose use land is granted to another person the latter is called the terre-tenant, having in himself the legal property and possession; yet not to his own use, but to dispose of it according to the directions of the cestuiqueuse, and to suffer him to take the profits.
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