Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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distributive deviation

A trustee's transfer of principal to the income beneficiaries when the income is inadequate to carry out the settlor's scheme of distribution, and without the permission of a remainderman who owns a future interest in the principal. 0 This practice is usu. impermissible except when life income beneficiaries need the money to buy necessaries.