Indiana Code 28-14-3-15. Trusts
(1) take, accept, and execute any and all legal trusts, duties, and powers in regard to the holding, management, sale, and disposition of any property or estate, real or personal, wherever located, and the rents and profits of the property or estate, which may be granted or confided to it by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by any person, corporation, municipality, or other authority;
Terms Used In Indiana Code 28-14-3-15
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(A) may be conferred upon or entrusted or submitted to it by any person, firm, company, or any body politic, corporation, foreign or domestic, or other authority, by grant, assignment, transfer, devise, bequest, or otherwise; or
(B) may be entrusted, committed, or transferred to it or vested in it by order of a court of competent jurisdiction; and
(3) generally execute trusts of every description not inconsistent with the laws of Indiana or the United States.
As added by P.L.262-1995, SEC.90.