Section 135 — Land Transfer Act 1952: Beneficiary may use name of trustee in prosecuting or defending action

135 Beneficiary may use name of trustee in prosecuting or defending action (1) Whenever a person entitled to or interested in land as a trustee would be entitled to bring or defend any action in his own name for recovering the possession of land under this Act, that person shall be bound to allow his name to be used as a plaintiff or defendant in any such action by any beneficiary or person claiming an estate or interest in the land. (2) In every such case the person entitled or interested as such trustee as aforesaid shall be entitled to be indemnified in like manner as a trustee would before the commencement of the Land Transfer Act 1885 have been entitled to be indemnified in a similar case of his name being used in any such action or proceeding by his cestui que trust . Compare: 1915 No 35 s 136