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Page: 371

Court of Session Inner House First Division.

Wednesday, March 11. 1867.

5 SLR 371

Zoller, Petitioner.

Subject_1Trust
Subject_2Assumption of Trustees
Subject_3Lapsed Trust
Subject_430 and 31 Vict., c. 97.
Facts:

The 12th section of the Administration of Trusts Act, applies to the case of a lapsed trust.

Headnote:

The 12th section of the Administration of Trusts Act, 30 and 31 Vict., c. 97, provides that in cases where trustees cannot be assumed under any trust-deed, or where any sole acting trustee has become insane or incapable of acting by reason of physical or mental disability, the Court may appoint a trustee or trustees under the trust-deed.

The Court held that this section of the Act applied to the case of a lapsed trust, where the last surviving trustee had died without having assumed any new trustees.

Judgment:

A. C. Lawrie for Petitioner.

Solicitors: Agents— Gibson-Craig, Dalziel, & Brodies, W.S.

1867


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