Read the full judgment text of HCA 001731/1977 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The plaintiffs sue the Attorney General under the provisions of the Crown Proceedings Ordinance. The suit concerns a Crown grant of a plot of land, with some houses thereon, situated in Kowloon. The land is part of a lot known as Kowloon Inland Lot 1088. The Crown had let that lot in 1903 to a person called Sassoon for a term of 75 years from the year 1900 with a right of renewal for a further 75 years. Originally the lot was an "island lot" bounded by four streets. There were various assignm