resulting trust
- noun
- /rɪˈzʌltɪŋ trʌst/
- Specialized
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fideicomiso resultante
- She was awarded a resulting trust after proving that her father wanted to leave her the family property.
Examples
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The judge decided that a resulting trust was necessary to ensure the intended beneficiaries received their inheritance.
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The court imposed a resulting trust because the parties intended to create a trust but failed to formalize it.
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Now if you calculate the resulting trust and the power, you have this red symbol instead of this blue.
Synonyms
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An arrangement where one person holds property for another person's benefit
A legal right to property that the law finds from people's actions when none was written
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally interpretable as 'a trust that results (from something)', so a learner who knows 'result' and 'trust' can infer it refers to a trust arising as a consequence. However, the specific legal doctrine (a court-imposed trust when intent exists but formalities are missing) is specialized and not fully predictable from the constituents, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Resulting trust comes from the idea that resulting means 'coming from the facts' and trust means someone holding property for another. Imagine someone gives property but really meant the original owner to keep the benefit and did not make it official; if a court sees this, it will treat the property as held for that person, so today resulting trust means a trust a court creates when the parties intended one but did not make it official.