The person who creates or establishes a fideicommissum; the original owner who puts property into a trust with instructions for its distribution.
From Latin 'fideicommissor' (one who commits something in trust), from 'fideicommittere' (to entrust). Literally means 'trust-committer.'
The fideicommissor had remarkable legal power: they could be dead for decades but their instructions still controlled family wealth, making them one of history's earliest forms of 'ruling from beyond the grave.'
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