"constructive trust" meaning in English

See constructive trust in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: constructive trusts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} constructive trust (plural constructive trusts)
  1. A trust created by operation of law where one party takes physical possession of property, but is legally required to use that property for the benefit of another party, in the absence of a written agreement. Wikipedia link: constructive trust Related terms: resulting trust
    Sense id: en-constructive_trust-en-noun-P~qB3bjJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for constructive trust meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "constructive trusts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "constructive trust (plural constructive trusts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trust created by operation of law where one party takes physical possession of property, but is legally required to use that property for the benefit of another party, in the absence of a written agreement."
      ],
      "id": "en-constructive_trust-en-noun-P~qB3bjJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "trust",
          "trust"
        ],
        [
          "operation of law",
          "operation of law"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "possession",
          "possession"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "resulting trust"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "constructive trust"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constructive trust"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "constructive trusts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "constructive trust (plural constructive trusts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "resulting trust"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trust created by operation of law where one party takes physical possession of property, but is legally required to use that property for the benefit of another party, in the absence of a written agreement."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trust",
          "trust"
        ],
        [
          "operation of law",
          "operation of law"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "possession",
          "possession"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "constructive trust"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "constructive trust"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.