The INDIAN TRUSTS ACT, 1882

OF THE DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF TRUSTEES

Section 18: Trustee to prevent waste.

Where the trust is created for the benefit of several persons in succession and one of them is in possession of the trust-property, if he commits, or threatens to commit, any act which is destructive or permanently injurious thereto, the trustee is bound to take measures to prevent such act.