Bare ActsThe Indian Trust Act, 1882

Section 53

Trustee may not buy beneficiary’s interest without permission.

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No trustee, and no person who has recently ceased to be a trustee, may, without the permission of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, buy or become mortgagee or lessee of the trust-property or any part thereof; and such permission shall not be given unless the proposed purchase, mortgage or lease is manifestly for the advantage of the beneficiary. Trustee for purchase. -- And no trustee whose duty it is to buy or to obtain a mortgage or lease of particular property for the beneficiary may buy it, or any part the reof, or obtain a mortgage or lease of it, or any part thereof, for himself.

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