Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 13 December 1969.
1. At the date of his death in 1908 the deceased, Li Wah Fuk, was registered under the land registration system prevailing in the N.T. as the owner of certain properties there situated. It is common ground that he died leaving the plaintiff appellant his lawful widow, but without issue. The first respondent, the first defendant in the proceedings, is the nearest male relative of the deceased, being a descendant in the male line of the deceased's paternal grandfather.