Read the full judgment text of CACV 000240/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 November 1999.
1. These are conjoined appeals from Mr. Robert Tang, S.C. (sitting as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court), who gave the judgments under appeal, in the two cases which he had to decide, on 9 July 1999. In one case, to which I shall refer as "the first case", he had to decide whether the inability of a vendor to produce to his purchasers the original of an agreement (for the grant of a Crown Lease) dated 5 October 1889, entitled the purchasers to call off their contract. I
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