There are laws about donating land to a trust for temple/charitable purposes. It was framed in 1882.Extracts given below.
5. Trust of immoveable property.-No trust in relation to
immoveable property is valid unless declared by a non-testamentary
instrument in writing signed by the author of the trust or the trustee
and registered, or by the will of the author of the trust or of the
trustee.
Trust of moveable property.-No trust in relation to moveable
property is valid unless declared as aforesaid, or unless the
ownership of the property is transferred to the trustee.
These rules do not apply where they would operate so as to
effectuate a fraud.
6. Creation of trust.-Subject to the provisions of section 5, a
trust is created when the author of the trust indicates with
reasonable certainty by any words or acts (a) an intention on his part
to create thereby a trust, (b) the purpose of the trust, (c) the
beneficiary, and (d) the trust-property, and (unless the trust is
declared by will or the author of the trust is himself to be the
trustee) transfers the trust-property to the trustee.
The trust-property is immoveable property which has been given to
the author of the trust by an unregistered instrument. Subject to the
provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1877 (3 of 1877), 1* the
trustee's duty is to cause the instrument to be registered.
14. Trustee not to set up title adverse to beneficiary.-The
trustee must not for himself or another set up or aid any title to the
trust-property adverse to the interest of the beneficiary.
15. Care required from trustee.-A trustee is bound to deal
7. Who may create trusts.-A trust may be created--
(a) by every person competent to contract, 1* and,
(b) with the permission of a principal Civil Court of
original jurisdiction, by or on behalf of a minor;
but subject in each case to the law for the time being in force
as to the circumstances and extent in and to which the author of the
trust may dispose of the trust-property.
8. Subject of trust.-The subject-matter of a trust must be
property transferable to the beneficiary.
It must not be merely beneficial interest under a subsisting
trust.
9. Who may be beneficiary. Disclaimer by beneficiary.-Every
person capable of holding property may be a beneficiary.
A proposed beneficiary may renounce his interest under the trust
by disclaimer addressed to the trustee, or by setting up, with notice
of the trust, a claim inconsistent therewith.
10. Who may be trustee.-Every person capable of holding property
may be a trustee; but, where the trust involves the exercise of
discretion, he cannot execute it unless he is competent to contract.
The creation or donation of the non movable property should have been registered in favor of deity for a specific purpose of expenditure.
Only a clear title holder can do it by registering it. The document must specify the trustee to administer it . Ancestral properties for which there can be other claimants cannot be donated. Such.
