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Trustee Act 1893
21Power for executors and trustees to compound, &c.
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21 Power for executors and trustees to compound, &c.
(2) Two or more trustees acting together, or a sole acting trustee,
where, by the instrument (if any) creating the trust, a sole trustee is
authorized to execute the trusts and powers thereof, may, if and as
he or they may think fit, accept any composition or any security,
real or personal, for any debt or for any property, real or personal,
claimed, and may allow any time for payment of any debt, and may
compromise, compound, abandon, submit to arbitration, or
otherwise settle any debt, account, claim, or thing whatever relating
to the trust, and for any of those purposes may enter into, give,
execute, and do such agreements, instruments of composition or
arrangement, releases, and other things, as to him or them seem
expedient, without being responsible for any loss occasioned by
any act or thing so done by him or them in good faith.
have effect subject to the terms of that instrument and to the
(4) This section applies to trusts constituted or created either before or
after the commencement of this Act.