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Executed trust, When an estate is conveyed to the use of A. and his heirs, with a simple declaration of trust for B. and his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the trust is perfect; and it is said to be executed, because no further act is necessary to be done by the trustee to raise and give effect to it; because there is no ground for the interference of a Court of Equity to affix a meaning to the words declaratory of the trust which they do not legally import, 1 Sand. Uses and Trusts, 335 and see EQUITABLE ESTATE.

As all trusts are executory in this sense, that the trustee is bound to dispose of the estate according to the tenure of his trust, it would be more accurate to substitute the terms 'passive' or 'active' for executed and executory trusts.