Special Secretary, Land And Land And ... vs State Bank Of India And Ors. on 12 April, 1988
In the case of Ramabai Govind v. Raghunath , it was held that a trustee as such has no right to sell the trust property unless the deed of trust confers such a power. There is no such express power conferred by the Act upon the trustee. The limitation imposed by Section 36, Trusts Act on the power of a trustee to lease the trust property is suggestive of this fact. A trustee no doubt is a legal owner of the property the beneficial ownership in the same vesting in: the beneficiary or the cestui que trust. Merely because the property is vested in that trustee or the legal owner, the trustee is not entitled to sell the same. He is not the full owner of the property in the real sense of the term, because there is a beneficial interest and the ownership therein carved out in the property The legal ownership which vests in the trustee is for the purposes of the trust and the administration of the provisions of the trust.