If a man owed and he could not pay, he and his wife, children or servants were forced into "debt slavery" until the creditor recouped losses through their physical labour

In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is known as the "settlor," the party to whom it is entrusted is known as the "trustee," the party for whose benefit the property is entrusted is known as the "beneficiary,"[1] and the entrusted property is known as the "corpus" or "trust property

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The one authorized to act is the agent,[1] attorney, or in some common law jurisdictions, the attorney-in-fact

Federal income tax purposes, a life insurance trust could be used to pay estate taxes

a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death

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