Kumarasamy Kurrukal V. Karthigesa Kurrukal

Present: Bertram C.J. and Porter J.

KUMARASAMY KURRUKAL v. KARTHIGESA KURRUKAL

213?D. C. Jaffna, 15,446.

Hindu temple?Public charitable trust?Temple built with money collected front the public and contributions of the Brahmins who collected the subscription?Are subscriptions gifts to the Brahmins ??Trusts Ordinance, 1917, ss. 102 and 106?Instrument of trust.

In 1878 a Saivite reformer started a movement for building a temple on the site of an ancient temple, and after his death three members of a Brahmin family (K and his sons S and T) in 1880 collected subscriptions with the assistance of several leading Saivites and rebuilt the temple. The Brahmins also contributed largely (20 per cent.) for this purpose. In 1896 the temple was dedicated for religious worship with the usual ceremonies. In 1898 a deed of management was formally executed which provided for the management (or trusteeship) and its succession, for the appointment and succession of the officiating priests, for the control of the temple ceremonies, the custody of its treasures, and the appropriation of its public subscriptions. Under this deed the right of

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