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Beneficial interest
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
To have a beneficial interest in some property (of any type) is to have a right to use or
enjoy that property for your own purposes. If you hold property on trust for another
person, then that person has the beneficial interest and you don't.
The term `beneficial interest' is almost synonymous with EquitableInterest, except that
some writers use the former term to encompass both legal, as well as equitable, rights
when they don't want to specify whether they're writing about one or the other. If I say
that I have the beneficial interest in a piece of land, for example, I am saying that I
have the use and enjoyment of that land, but I'm not saying whether I have that use
and enjoyment through equitable principles or not.
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