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A trust which is deemed to be valid, but in which the courts will not compel the trustees to carry out the obligations placed on them (hence the obligations are `imperfect'). Normally a trust that creates an obligation on the trustees beyond the duty to benefit some ascertainable beneficiary will be held invalid (see BeneficiaryPrinciple), unless it is a CharitableTrust. The term `trust of imperfect obligation' is not a precise one, and different authors use it to describe one or both of the following types of trust.
The difference between these two categories are that a trust of Osaba has a human beneficiary, while an Endacott trust does not. So the first category probably does not represent a strong exception to the beneficiary principle.
A trust of the type described in ReDenley1969 would probably not be described as a trust of imperfect obligation because the very reason that the Re Denley trust was upheld was that there were people who could enforce the trust.
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