Trustee duty to defend title: obligations to maintain suits and take reasonable steps to preserve trust property. A trustee is obliged to maintain and defend suits and to take such other reasonable steps, subject to the instrument of trust, as are requisite for preservation of trust-property and for the assertion or protection of title thereto, with the nature and value of the property guiding the measures to be taken; in practice this may include causing an unregistered instrument conveying immovable trust-property to be registered in accordance with applicable registration law.
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Trustee duty to defend title: obligations to maintain suits and take reasonable steps to preserve trust property.
A trustee is obliged to maintain and defend suits and to take such other reasonable steps, subject to the instrument of trust, as are requisite for preservation of trust-property and for the assertion or protection of title thereto, with the nature and value of the property guiding the measures to be taken; in practice this may include causing an unregistered instrument conveying immovable trust-property to be registered in accordance with applicable registration law.
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