Section 83 - Trust incapable of execution or executed without exhausting trust-property. - Indian Trusts Act, 1882

Trust incapable of execution or executed without exhausting trust-property. 83. Where a trust is incapable of being executed, or where the trust is completely executed without exhausting the trust-property, the trustee, in the absence of a direction to the contrary, must hold the trust-property, or so much thereof as is unexhausted, for the benefit of the author of the trust or his legal representative. Illustrations (a) A conveys certain land to B "upon trust", and no trust is declared; or "upon trust to be thereafter declared", and no such declaration is ever made; or upon trusts that are too vague to be executed; or upon trusts that become incapable of taking effect; or "in trust for C", and C renounces his interest under the trust. In each of these cases B holds the land for the benefit of A. (b) A transfers Rs. 10,000 in the four per cents to B, in trust to pay the interest annually accruing due to C for her life. A dies. Then C dies. B holds the fund for the benefit of A's legal representative. (c) A conveys land to B upon trust to sell it and apply one moiety of the proceeds for certain charitable purposes, and the other for the mainte nance of the worship of an idol. B sells the land, but the charitable purposes wholly fail, and the maintenance of the worship does not exhaust the second moiety of the proceeds. B holds the first moiety and the part unapplied of the second moiety for the benefit of A or his legal representative. (d) A bequeaths Rs. 10,000 to B, to be laid out in buying land to be conveyed for purposes which either wholly or-partially fail to take effect. B holds for the benefit of A's legal representative the undisposed of interest in the money or land if purchased.