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R.O.R. is not enough to establish claim of Trusteeship :– Principles of the backward and forward presumption – explained – merely because record of rights indicating a person as a ruler showing as a sebayat cannot be said that the institutions were founded by him or by any office ancestors, 72 (1991) CLT 277 (Raghunath Das after him Kamini Dei @ Krishna Kamini Dei and others Vs. Sri Grama Devati Ambica Thakurani and others) Categories of hereditary trust – defined – 72 (1991) CLT 530 (Sri Rama Chandra Rana and others Vs. Hindu Public and Shri Kaleswar Mahadev at Kalarapadar and others) Meaning of the term hereditary trustee means trustee of religious institution succession to whose office devolves to hereditary right since the time of the founder or is regulated by custom or is specifically provided for by the founder, so long as such scheme of succession is in force. 71 (1991) CLT 32 (Alekha Chandra Swain and others Vs. Nrusinghanath Thakur and others). If by the passage of time it is not possible to trace back to the time of founder, the principles of Lost grant and backward presumptions is available for the Courts to be drawn from the evidence available from the records backward presumption of lost grant theory cannot be drawn as there is paucity of materials to draw such presumption, 71 (1991) CLT 339 (Shyama Charan Pradhan and Others Vs. Naikhani Thakurani and others)