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Public trust   /pˈəblɪk trəst/   Listen
Public trust

noun
1.
A trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes.  Synonym: charitable trust.






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"Public trust" Quotes from Famous Books



... the prospector who'd spent years searching for and who'd finally found a gold mine that his reward should be in the mere knowledge of having found it, the feeling of elation that he had added to the sum total of the world's wealth, and that he should relinquish it intact as a public trust. Just preach this gospel, and how long would you escape the mad-house? Or the architect who designs and superintends the construction of a sky-scraper. Take him aside and argue with him that the artistic satisfaction ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... 'purveyance.' There was the mysterious 'Board of Green Cloth' formed by the great officers and supposed to have judicial as well as administrative functions. Cumbrous mediaeval machinery thus remained which had been formed in the time when the distinction between a public trust and private property was not definitely drawn or which had been allowed to remain for the sake of patronage, when its functions had been transferred to officials of more modern type. Reform was foiled, as Burke put it, ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

... five judges chosen by joint vote of the two houses of the General Assembly. Term, twelve years. Salary: President, $4,200; other judges, each $4,000. The judges shall not hold any other office or public trust; shall not ...
— Civil Government of Virginia • William F. Fox



Words linked to "Public trust" :   trust, charitable trust



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