91-9-103 - Definitions. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 91-9-103. Definitions.
 

The following words when used in this article shall have the following meanings: 
 

(a) "Trust" means an express trust created by a trust instrument, including a will, whereby a trustee has the duty to administer a trust asset for the benefit of a named or otherwise described income or principal beneficiary, or both; "trust" does not include a resulting or constructive trust, a business trust which provides for certificates to be issued to the beneficiary, an investment trust, a voting trust, a security instrument, a trust created by the judgment or decree of a court, a liquidation trust, or a trust for the primary purpose of paying dividends, interests, interest coupons, salaries, wages, pensions, profits, or employee benefits of any kind, an instrument wherein a person is nominee or escrowee for another, a trust created in deposits in any financial institution, or other trust the nature of which does not admit of general trust administration. 

(b) "Trustee" means an original, added, or successor trustee; and in the case of a corporate trustee, includes its successor by merger or consolidation. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 672-121; Laws,  1966, ch. 372, § 1; Laws, 2006, ch. 474, § 19, eff from and after July 1, 2006.