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"As we have already observed, the deed of 1941 originally gave the power to the founders to revoke the Trust but this power was taken away by a subsequent document which was executed on 26.8.1943. It is thereafter that the Trust became an irrevocable trust. The powers of the trustee in respect of the said Trust continued to remain the same as set out in clause (8) of the partnership deed which has been extracted hereinabove. The said trustee was only required to carry out the objects of the Trust and spend the trust funds for charitable purposes in the manner indicated therein. No power was given to the trustee to amend, alter, vary or change in any manner to the objects of the Trust as created in 1941. The result of this is that neither the trustee nor the founders could bring about any change in the objects of the Trust as set out in their partnership deed dated 28.11.1941. This being so, the document dated 1.7.1944 executed by the trustee was clearly without any authority and was non est. He had no right or jurisdiction to execute the document of 1.7.1944 which in effect changed the objects of the Trust radically and in fact converted what was meant to be a public charitable trust to a non-charitable trust as held by this Court in East India Industries case when the deed dated 1.7.1944 was construed by it. It will be useful at this juncture to refer to the following passage from Tudor on Charities (6th Edn.) At P 131, it is stated as follows:-