law: Official Trustees Act, 1913 
  10. Power of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be
  
  trustee of property 
  (1) If any property is subject to a trust other than a trust
  
  which the Official Trustee is prohibited from accepting under the provisions of
  
  this Act, and there is no trustee within the local limits of the ordinary or
  
  extraordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court willing or capable
  
  to act in the trust, the High Court may on application make an order for the
  
  appointment of the Official Trustee by that name with his consent to be the
  
  trustee of such property.
  (2) Upon such order such property shall vest in the Official
  
  Trustee and shall be held by him upon the same trusts as the same was held
  
  previously to such order, and the previous trustee or trustees (if any) shall
  
  be exempt from the liability as trustees of such property save in respect of
  
  acts done before the date of such order.
  (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the
  
  provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882).