![]() Revocable: Capable of being cancelled or withdrawn. Mandatory: Of, relating to, or constituting a command required preemptory. Precatory: Requesting, recommending, or expressing a desire for action but in a non-binding way. (Trust-Manager.)īeneficiary: One designated to receive something as a result of a legal arrangement or instrument.įiduciary: One who owes to another the duties of good faith, trust, confidence, and candor One who must exercise a high standard of care in managing another’s money or property.ĭuty: A legal obligation that is owed or due to another and that needs to be satisfied an obligation for which somebody else has a corresponding right. Trustee: One who, having legal title to property, holds it in trust for the benefit of another and owes a fiduciary duty to that beneficiary. Grantor (also Settlor or Trustor): One who establishes a trust. Trust: A property interest held by one person (trustee) at the request of another (grantor) for the benefit of a third party (beneficiary). show that never was, below are some entries from the original (and to date the only) Black’s Law Dictionary. As it turns out, I make a much better lawyer than a hit T.V. I have to admit, How to Get Away with Murder is a better title for a T.V. It is instead about a criminal law attorney and her eager first-year law students. In case there is any doubt, the show is not about an estate planning attorney. She created a captivating legal drama of her own: How to Get Away with Murder. show featuring “dictionary” in its title.Īlas, I never got around to writing my show and a few years ago Shonda Rhimes beat me to the punch. However, being the English Major and vocabulary lover that I am, I liked the idea of a hit T.V. To them, the word, “dictionary,” did not connote excitement and interest. Many of my friends suggested that my working title of Black’s Law Dictionary should drop “dictionary” to simply be Black’s Law. shows or movies about estate planning attorneys and it’s about time legal practice areas other than criminal law and civil litigation get some pop culture exposure. The show would star “Bing Black,” a charismatic and debonair estate planning lawyer who helps people solve their problems without any drama or strife. ![]() I decided that if I ever wrote a legal drama, I would indeed call it Black’s Law Dictionary. As a lawyer, I wondered what would be the legal equivalent of Gray’s Anatomy? The best I could come up with was Black’s Law Dictionary, the most popular dictionary of legal terms which was created by Henry Campbell Black and first published in 1891. The show, created by Shonda Rhimes, stars “Meredith Grey” but is of course named after the famous medical textbook, Gray’s Anatomy, by Henry Gray, a surgeon from the Nineteenth Century. The television show, Grey’s Anatomy, first aired when I was a young attorney.
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