Indian Trusts Act, 1882
Section - 88 - Advantage gained by fiduciary
Advantage gained by fiduciary.
88. Where a trustee, executor, partner, agent, director of a company, legal advisor, or other person bound in a fiduciary character to protect the interests of another person, by availing himself of his character, gains for himself any pecuniary advantage, or where any person so bound enters into any dealings under circumstances in which his own interests are, or may be, adverse to those of such other person and thereby gains for himself a pecuniary advantage, he must hold for the benefit of such other person the advantage so gained.
Illustrations
| (a) | - | A, an executor, buys at an undervalue from B, a legatee, his claim under the will. B is ignorant of the value of the bequest. A must hold for the benefit of B the difference between the price and value. |
| (b) | - | A, a trustee, uses the trust-property for the purpose of his own business. A holds for the benefit of his beneficiary the profits arising from such user. |
| (c) | - | A, a trustee, retires from his trust in consideration of his successor paying him a sum of money. A h .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store
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