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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIDENAE , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Latium, situated about 5 in. N. of See also:Rome on the Via See also:Salaria, which ran between it and the See also:Tiber. It was for some while the frontier of the See also:Roman territory and was often in the hands of See also:Veii. It appears to have fallen under the Roman sway after the See also:capture of this town, and is spoken of by classical authors as a See also:place almost deserted in their See also:time. It seems, however; to have had some importance as a See also:post station. The site of the arx of the ancient town is probably to be sought on the See also:hill on which lies the See also:Villa Spada, though no traces of See also:early buildings or defences are to be seen: pre-Roman tombs are to be found in the cliffs to the See also:north. The later See also:village See also:lay at the See also:foot of the hill on the eastern edge of the high-road, and its See also:curia, with a dedicatory inscription to M. Aurelius by the Senatus Fidenatium, was excavated' in 1889. Remains of other buildings may also be seen. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii. 17.

FIDUCIARY (See also:

Lat. fiduciarius, one in whom See also:trust, fiducia, is reposed), of or belbnging to a position of trust, especially of one who stands in a particular relationship of confidence to another. Such relationships are, in See also:law, those of See also:parent and See also:child, See also:guardian and See also:ward, trustee and See also:cestui que trust, legal adviser and client, spiritual adviser, See also:doctor and patient, &c. In many of these the law has attached See also:special obligations in the See also:case of gifts made to the " fiduciary," on whom is laid the onus of proving that no " undue See also:influence " has been exercised.

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