commingling of funds

commingling of funds
n.
A fiduciary’s mingling of a client’s or beneficiary’s money with his or her own.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


commingling of funds
n. The mixing by a fiduciary, trustee, or lawyer of the money or property of a customer or client with his own without a detailed and exact accounting of which part of the common funds and property belong to the customer or client.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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  • commingling — In the context of securities, this involves mixing customer owned securities with brokerage firm owned securities. This process is referred to as rehypothecation, which is the use of customers collateral to secure their loans. This is legal with… …   Financial and business terms

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  • pooling — Commingling the funds of several trusts for investment in one or more securities. 54 Am J1st Trust § 396. Forming a pool. Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Asso. v Stovall, 113 Tex 273, 253 SW 1101. <b></b>See pool …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • commingle — com·min·gle /kə miŋ gəl, kä / vb gled, gl·ing vt: to combine (funds or properties) into a common fund or stock vi: to become commingled Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • fund — 1 n 1: a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective cli·ent security fund: a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys misappropriation… …   Law dictionary

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