English Explanatory Dictionary

fideicommissum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A benefit bequeathed to a beneficiary who inherits the benefit, subject to the obligation of bequeathing it to another.

Word forms

fideicommissum fideicommissa

Etymology

Latin fidēs + -i- + Latin commissum, from commissus, from committō (“combine, join together, unite, connect, put together”), from con- + mittō (“to send”).

Related words

fideicommissarius fideicommissary fideicommissioner usufruct
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