Read the full judgment text of HCA 005478/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 February 1984.
1. This case has underlined a sad and serious deficiency in the registration of titles in the New Territories. The plaintiff appears to possess a clear and unqualified paper title to Lot 3954 in Demarcation District (D.D.) 104. The defendant likewise appears to possess a clear unqualified paper title to Pok Wai Village House Lots 114, 125, 143 and 144 (the house lots). The plaintiff is able to point to the Land Office Map of D.D. 104 as showing the original boundaries of Lot 3954, and by this a