Cestui que
Cestui que /ˈsɛstwi ˈkeɪ/, also
cestuy que, is a shortened version of
cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, "The person for whose use the feoffment was made." It is a Law French phrase of medieval English invention, which appears in the legal phrases
cestui que trust,
cestui que use, or
cestui que vie. In contemporary English the phrase is also commonly pronounced "setty-kay" or "sesty-kay". According to Roebuck,
Cestui que use is pronounced "setticky yuce".
Cestui que use and
cestui que trust are more or less interchangeable terms. In some medieval materials, the phrase is seen as
cestui a que. The
cestui que use is the person for whose benefit the trust is created. The
cestui que trust is the person entitled to an equitable, as opposed to a legal, estate. Thus, if land is granted to the use of A in trust for B, A is cestui que trust, and B trustee, or use. The term, principally owing to its cumbersome nature, has been virtually superseded in modern law by that of "beneficiary", and general law of trusts.