Category:Trustee

Trus*tee", n. (law)

Defn: a person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be Applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for Public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of Another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are Attached in a trustee process. Trustee process (law), a process by Which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, In the hands of a third person; -- called, in some states, the Process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [u. S.]

Trustee Trus*tee", v. t.

1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an Estate.

2. (law)

Defn: to attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands Of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [u.s.]