Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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express private passive trust

A trust in which land is conveyed to or held by one person in trust for another, without any power being expressly or impliedly given to the trustee to take actual possession of the land or exercise any ownership rights over it, except at the beneficiary's direction.

passive trust

A trust in which the trustee has no duty other than to transfer the property to the beneficiary. - Also termed dry trust; nominal trust; simple trust; naked trust; ministerial trust. Cf. active trust.