Declaration of Express Trust
Est. March 5th, 2019, 4:00 PM
This Indenture (Agreement) made this 5th day of March in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen establishes a Declaration of Trust executed by and between:
ZELON NICK MODESTE, hereinafter the Grantor (the first party), and NICHOLE LEWIS, hereinafter First Trustee, Sole Trustee, or Trustee (the second party), and the name of the Trust shall be NEXUS SUPERUS EXPRESS TRUST, hereinafter the Express Trust or Trust d/b/a ZELON SPRITUS DEI.
Trust includes an express trust, whether private or charitable, along with any additions thereto, regardless of how or where it is created.
Property means anything that may be subject to ownership, including real and personal property.
Person means any natural person, individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, partnership, limited liability company, association, or any other legal entity.
Grantor means an individual who transfers property into a trust for the benefit of beneficiaries. In certain legal systems, a grantor may also be referred to as a settlor, trustor, or donor. A grantor establishes a trust by demonstrating the intent to create it and is the individual responsible for its formation.
Trust Protector means any authorized individual designated by the grantor in the future. A Trust Protector is appointed under the trust instrument with the authority to oversee, direct, restrain, or remove trustee(s) and to appoint a successor if necessary.
Trustee(s) means an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. A trustee is an individual or firm responsible for holding or administering property or assets on behalf of a third party. A trustee may be granted authority to make investment decisions for the Trust, determine the distribution of assets to beneficiaries, and hire professionalswhether authorized or notsuch as accountants, attorneys, auditors, investment advisors, appraisers, or other agents. These individuals may be affiliated or associated with the trustee and assist in fulfilling administrative duties.
Beneficial Owner means an individual or entity that holds specific property rights (use and title) in equity, even though the legal title is held by another party. In such cases, the legal titleholder assumes implied trustee duties on behalf of the beneficial owner.
GRANTOR shall be ZELON NICK MODESTE and remain irrevocable for the life of the Trust.
TRUST PROTECTOR shall be ZELON NICK MODESTE (the first Trust Protector), with full authority to appoint any other Trust Protector(s) or Successors.
TRUSTEE(S) shall be NICHOLE LEWIS (the Sole Trustee), with other trustee(s) to come and appointed hereinafter known as the Board of Trustees.
Declaration of Express Trust
Est. March 5th, 2019, 4:00 PM
BENEFICIAL OWNER shall be the NEXUS SUPERUS EXPRESS TRUST (the First Beneficiary) with other Beneficiaries to come hereinafter known as Members
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS the Trust shall remain in effect for twenty-five (25) years from the date of this Agreement.
WHEREAS the purpose of this Agreement is to form an Express Trust Organization for the benefit of Trust Certificate Unit Holders and to acquire, manage, and identify any assets that become available, and to establish a structured system of administration and allocation carried out by legal persons acting in a fiduciary capacity.
WHEREAS, the Grantor irrevocably transfers and assigns to the Trustee, in trust, certain property as specified in the Trustee Minutes attached hereto, in exchange for one hundred (100) units of Beneficial Interest for each property, whether personal, real, tangible, or intangible. These units, referred to as Trust Certificate Units (TCUs), shall be held under this Agreement by the Trustees for the benefit of the Beneficiaries, also known as Members.
WHEREAS the Express Trust Organization is authorized to operate and function through its Board of Trustees, which consists of the total number of active Trustees. The Trustees, as legal persons, collectively hold the fee simple title without distinction between legal and equitable ownership, acting not as individuals but as a unified Board, with inalienable Common Law rights.
WHEREAS the Trust shall be governed as outlined in its bylaws and shall remain irrevocable by the Grantor or any other person or entity. However, the Trustee may be removed by the Trust Protector and replaced with a newly appointed Trustee at the Trust Protectors discretion.
WHEREAS the Grantor intends to provide Beneficiaries with an absolute gift of the Trust Certificate Units (TCUs), though the Beneficiaries shall not possess any vested interest until the termination of the Trust and the final distribution of accumulated assets, or any earlier distribution thereof. The total number of Trust Certificate Units (TCUs) available to the Beneficiaries shall be exactly one hundred (100).
WHEREAS the Trust shall be administered, managed, governed, and regulated in all respects applicable to Common Law jurisdiction of New York, being bound to the 1787 Bill of Rights AN ACT concerning the rights of the citizens of this State:
First That no authority shall, on any pretence whatsoever be exercised over the citizens of this State but such as is or shall be derived from and granted by the people of this State.
Second That no citizen of this State shall be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his or her freehold or liberties of free customs or outlawed or exiled or condemned or otherwise destroyed, but by lawful judgment of his or her peers or by due process of law.
Third That no citizen of this State shall be taken or imprisoned for any offence upon petition or suggestion unless it be by indictment or presentment of good and lawful men of the same neighbourhood where such deeds be done, in due manner or by due process of law.
Declaration of Express Trust
Est. March 5th, 2019, 4:00 PM
Fourth That no person shall be put to answer without presentment before justices, or matter of record, or due process of law according to the law of the land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in law and holden for error.
Fifth That no person, of what estate or condition soever shall be taken or imprisoned, or disinherited or put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law, and that no person shall be put out of his or her franchise or freehold or lose his or her life or limb, or goods and chattels, unless he or she be duly brought to answer and be forejudged of the same by due course of law and if any thing be done contrary to the same it shall be void in law and holden for none.
Sixth That neither justice, nor right shall be sold to any person, nor denied nor deferred; and that writs and process shall be granted freely and without delay to all persons requiring the same and nothing from. henceforth shall be paid or taken for any writ or process but the accustomed fee for writing and for the seal of the same writ or process and all fines duties and impositions whatsoever heretofore taken or demanded under what name or description soever, for or upon granting any writs, inquests, commissions or process to suitors in their causes shall be and hereby are abolished.
WHEREAS the Trust shall be administered, managed, governed, and regulated in all respects applicable to Common Law jurisdiction of New York, being bound to the Articles of Confederation of 1781, Article IV The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state, to any other State of which the Owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them.
NOW THEREFORE, the Trust shall be administered, managed, governed, and regulated in all respects applicable to Common Law jurisdiction of New York, Treaty of Marrakesh, Treaty of Tripoli, the Treaty of Morocco (Peace and Friendship), Treaty Between United States and the Sultan Seid, The Act of Algeciras, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution for United States of America and the Uniform Commercial Code (only when and if applicable and/or allowable to remain under the jurisdiction of Common Law). The domicile of the trust is within the Court of Equity, in the Territory of New York in the Republic of the United States of America, only as a last resort when everything fails.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
/s/ Modeste, Zelon Nick
Modeste Zelon Nick, Grantor Date 03/05/2019
/s/ Lewis, Nichole
Lewis Nichole, Sole Trustee Date 03/05/2019
May 15, 2026
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