Indian Trusts Act, 1882

Section - 23 - Liability for breach of trust

Liability for breach of trust.

23. Where the trustee commits a breach of trust, he is liable to make good the loss which the trust-property or the beneficiary has thereby sustained, unless the beneficiary has by fraud induced the trustee to commit the breach, or the beneficiary, being competent to contract, has himself, without coercion or undue influence having been brought to bear on him, concurred in the breach, or subsequently acquiesced therein, with full knowledge of the facts of the case and of his rights as against the trustee.

A trustee committing a breach of trust is not liable to pay interest except in the following cases :-

(a)- where he has actually received interest;
(b)- where the breach consists in unreasonable delay in paying trust-money to the beneficiary;
(c)- where the trustee ought to have received interest, but has not done so;
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