Read the full judgment text of DCMP 3189/2017 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 30 April 2018.
1. The matter concerns two lots of land which the plaintiff has purchased in 2012 and 2013 from the vendor who had owned the lots since 1955. The vendor had in 1957 mortgaged the lots to the defendant and had since then not yet repaid the loan, nor redeemed the mortgage. The plaintiff cannot locate the defendant, and applied to the court by Originating Summons for a declaration under Section 12A of the Conveyancing and Property Ordinance that the lots be free from the mortgage. The matter cam