9. Persons and objects in whose favour trusts may be created.

A trust may be created in favour of any person to whom a gift can legally be made1. A trust may also be created for charitable purposes2 but not in general for a non-charitable purpose or object or a non-human beneficiary such as a dog3. Exceptionally, however, certain trusts have been held valid, even though they were not charitable and there was no person who directly benefited from their performance4. Thus testamentary