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Banks And Banking -Trust Companies - Deposit Of Trust Funds By Corporate Trustee In Own Banking Department
Michigan Law Review
The appearance of the corporate fiduciary, the trust company, in the modern banking and business world has, because of its peculiar composite structure, been attended by some confusion in the application to it of certain rules designed for the administration of trusts by private persons as trustees. The trust company maintains a department which acts as trustee, executor under wills, and in such other capacities as a natural fiduciary might assume; and in addition there usually exists, within the same corporate structure, a commercial and savings banking business. Each of these departments is capable of dealing with the other as …