dry and passive trust
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
If she is not within the class whom Congress sought to protect, the trust is a dry and passive one; there remains only a ministerial act for the trustee to perform, namely the issuance of a fee patent to the cestui.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Bailess v. Paukune, 344 U.S. 171 (1952).