25 Nov 1986
KAN FAT TAT ALSO KNOWN AS KAN FAT v. KAN YIN TAT ALSO KNOWN AS KAN TAT
- Citation
- KAN FAT TAT ALSO KNOWN AS KAN FAT v. KAN YIN TAT ALSO KNOWN AS KAN TAT
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP865/1982
Compensation (letters B and cash) paid for compulsory resumption of Tso land remains subject to the Tso/customary trust rather than automatically treated as alienable corpus distributable on demand; the court held it would be unjust and oppressive to apply the rule against perpetuities to destroy the Tso by treating compensation as freely alienable, so no resulting trust was declared to arise in favor of the Defendant and no court‑ordered distribution was granted. Distribution of compensation cannot be compelled by a single member or a majority; unanimous consent of Tso members (and complianc…