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  2. Trust (business) - Wikipedia

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    A trust or corporate trust is a large grouping of business interests with significant market power, which may be embodied as a corporation or as a group of corporations that cooperate with one another in various ways. These ways can include constituting a trade association, owning stock in one another, constituting a corporate group (sometimes ...

  3. Trust (law) - Wikipedia

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    Standby Trust (or 'Pourover Trust)': The trust is empty at creation during life and the will transfers the property into the trust at death. This is a statutory trust. Statutory Business Trust: A trust created pursuant to a state's business trust statute used primarily for commercial purposes.

  4. Corporate trust - Wikipedia

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    Corporate trust. In the most basic sense of the term, a corporate trust is a trust created by a corporation. [1] The term in the United States is most often used to describe the business activities of many financial services companies and banks that act in a fiduciary capacity for investors in a particular security (i.e. stock investors or bond ...

  5. United States trust law - Wikipedia

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    t. e. United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust. Most of the law regulating the creation and administration of trusts in the United States is now statutory at the state level. In August 2004, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws created the first ...

  6. Trust (social science) - Wikipedia

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    Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected. It brings with it a willingness for one party (the trustor) to become vulnerable to another party (the trustee), on the presumption that the trustee will act in ways that benefit the trustor. [1][2][3] In addition, the trustor does not have control over the actions of the trustee ...

  7. Trust management (managerial science) - Wikipedia

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    1. Make assessments and decisions regarding the dependability of potential transactions involving risk. 2. Allow players and system owners to increase and correctly represent the reliability of themselves and their systems.”. Trust is a container concept used in a broad variety of disciplines. Much work has been done in the field of ...

  8. Trust company - Wikipedia

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    A trust company is a corporation that acts as a fiduciary, trustee or agent of trusts and agencies. A professional trust company may be independently owned or owned by, for example, a bank or a law firm, and which specializes in being a trustee of various kinds of trusts. The "trust" name refers to the ability to act as a trustee – someone ...

  9. History of equity and trusts - Wikipedia

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    History of equity and trusts. The law of trusts was constructed as a part of "Equity", a body of principles that arose in the Courts of Chancery, which sought to correct the strictness of the common law. The trust was an addition to the law of property, in the situation where one person held legal title to property but the courts decided it was ...