West Virginia Code § 35-2-2

Validation of conveyances, devises, gifts and bequests to trustees --
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Appointment of trustee; designation of beneficiaries and objects; administration by
chancery court cy pres.
No conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant or bequest hereafter made for any of the uses
set forth in the preceding section shall fail or be declared void for insufficient designation of
the beneficiaries in, or the objects of, any trust annexed to such conveyancee, devise,
dedication, gift, grant, or bequest, or for any failure to name or appoint a trustee for the
execution of the trust; but such conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grrant, or bequest shall
be valid; and whenever the objects of any such trust shall be undefined, or be so uncertain
as not to admit of specific enforcement, or literal execution, or no trustee shall have been
named or appointed to execute the trust, or there is no trustee or trustees in existence
having authority to take the property, a suit in chancery mayt be instituted, by any party
interested, in the circuit court of the county where the trust subject, or any part thereof is, in
the case of a conveyance, dedication, gift or grant, or in which the will was probated, in the
case of a devise or bequest, for the appointment or designation of a trustee or trustees to
execute the trust, or for the designation of the beneficiaries in, or the objects of, any such
trust, or, where such trust does not admit of specific enforcement or literal execution, for the
carrying into effect as near as may be the intent and purposes of the person creating such
trust; and thereupon such court shall have full power to appoint or designate a trustee or
trustees to execute the trust, or to designate the beneficiaries in, or the objects of, any such
trust, or where such trust does not admit of specific enforcement or literal execution, to
carry into effect as near as maey be the intent and purposes of the person creating such trust.

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