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It is no more res integra that the settlor while creating a trust cannot create a line of succession to the office of sebait unknown to Hindu Law. From the days of Tagore versus Tagore culminating in the Full Bench decision of our Court in Monohar Mukherjee Vs. Bhupendra Nath Mukherjee & Ors. reported at AIR 1932 Cal 791, it has now been well-settled that rules for successions to the office should be rendered invalid by reason that they provide for office to be held by some among the heirs of the founder to the exclusion of others differing from the line of Hindu inheritance. In this case the settler gave a direction in the endowment creating a debuttor to the effect "that after the death of all of his son the eldest male in the family should be sole shebait and that no daughters son or daughter should hold the office."