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cestui que use

noun/ˌsɛtwi kə ˈjuːz/

C2CEFR level
99/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The person for whose benefit land is held by another under a use.

Before the Statute of Uses, the cestui que use enjoyed the land while another held the legal title.

Similar: beneficiary

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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