Roumán Part II - Nouns,Adjectives,and Pronouns
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 19:52 |
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I think so. In French, we simply added the adverb "ecce" in front of iste and
> ille, and then lost the "ec-", which explains forms like (in Old French) cist,
> cil, cestui, celui, etc...
In English law the term "cestui que trust" ["sEtEki'trVst] survives,
meaning "the person for whose benefit a legal trust has been created".
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