Section 19-3-3

Estate of trustee; termination of trust estate.

A trustee ordinarily takes no greater estate than is needed for the support of the trust which he is to administer. Whenever a trust estate is created, a legal estate sufficient for the purpose of the trust shall, if possible, be implied in the trustee, whatever may be the limitations in the instrument creating the trust; and, although a legal estate may be limited to the trustee to the fullest extent as to him and his heirs, yet it shall not be carried further than the complete execution of the trust requires.

(Code 1923, §10433; Code 1940, T. 58, §3.)