Origin Roman and civil law (the contract of fiducia)
A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with another party, typically managing money or assets on someone else's behalf, as with corporate trust companies, bank trust departments, financial advisers and pension plan managers. Fiduciary duty is the highest standard of care recognized in equity or law, requiring extreme loyalty to the person the fiduciary serves and forbidding conflicts between the fiduciary's own interests and their duties; a fiduciary must not profit from the position unless the person they serve consents. Common fiduciary relationships include trustees and beneficiaries, corporate directors and shareholders, lawyers and clients, financial advisers and clients, guardians and wards, and agents and principals, and in each of these good conscience requires the fiduciary to act solely for the other party's benefit rather than their own. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin PeriodRoman and civil law (the contract of fiducia) 1 Core PrincipleGood conscience requires the fiduciary to act at all times for the sole benefit and interest of the one who trusts 1 Origin Period
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1. Fiduciary (Wikipedia)
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Roman and civil law recognized a type of contract called fiducia (also contractus fiduciae or fiduciary contract), involving essentially a sale to a person coupled with an agreement that the purchaser should sell the property back upon the fulfillment of certain conditions.
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In such a relation, good conscience requires the fiduciary to act at all times for the sole benefit and interest of the one who trusts.
View the Source2. Wikipedia: Fiduciary
a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with one or more other parties, prudently taking care of money or assetsView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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