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  2. 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 ...

  3. Trust (business) - Wikipedia

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    Trust (business) 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 ...

  4. Fiduciary - Wikipedia

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    A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with one or more other parties (person or group of persons). Typically, a fiduciary prudently takes care of money or other assets for another person. One party, for example, a corporate trust company or the trust department of a bank, acts in a fiduciary capacity to ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Trust (law) - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Trust (law) For the monopolistic business, see Trust (business). For other uses of the word "trust", see Trust (disambiguation). A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit of a designated person.

  7. United States antitrust law - Wikipedia

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    Sherman Act 1890 § 1 Preventing collusion and cartels that act in restraint of trade is an essential task of antitrust law. It reflects the view that each business has a duty to act independently on the market, and so earn its profits solely by providing better priced and quality products than its competitors. The Sherman Act §1 prohibits "[e]very contract, combination in the form of trust ...

  8. Financial institution - Wikipedia

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    Financial institutions provide long term finance, which are not provided by commercial banks; The funds are made available even during periods of depression, when other sources of finance are not available; Obtaining loan from financial institutions increases the goodwill of the borrowing in the capital market .

  9. Regulatory economics - Wikipedia

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    Regulation is generally defined as legislation imposed by a government on individuals and private sector firms in order to regulate and modify economic behaviors. [1] Conflict can occur between public services and commercial procedures (e.g. maximizing profit), the interests of the people using these services (see market failure), and also the ...