beneficial interest

Example Sentences

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Mr Usmanov declined to respond to questions about his relationship with the two trusts, or whether he had ceased to have a beneficial interest in them.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2022

Everybody needs the water and they have a mutual, beneficial interest in preserving that water.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2021

Employees who leave the company and sell the beneficial interest in their shares to the trust are subject to tax; but if they roll their money into a retirement plan, it isn’t taxed until withdrawn.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2017

The idea here is that the settlor of the trust is not, repeat not, given anything like a beneficial interest in the trust, i.e., is not made a beneficiary of the trust.

From Forbes • Aug. 23, 2014

The Great Northern Railroad itself did not retain control of the ore lands but, through a trusteeship, gave a beneficial interest in them to its stockholders in the shape of a special dividend.

From The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states by Moody, John