I wonder if there is some assumption - which the system effectively enforces - that trustees (if more than one) must hold as joint tenants. If I am the principal behind the creation of the trust and decide to appoint and entrust A and B specifically to be trustees, presumably I will want to see title vested in the trust property, in them, as joint tenants. I don't want either A or B to be able to transfer a 1/2 interest to Joe Blow. If one should die, I don't want the 1/2 interest vesting -- upon his or her death in her legal personal resp -- whom I might not even know.
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