23 Dec 1998
LAU CHUN LEUNG LOUIS AND ANOTHER v. YAN WAI WING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- LAU CHUN LEUNG LOUIS AND ANOTHER v. YAN WAI WING AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP863/1998
The court held the vendors' responses were legally sufficient: Sale Memorial No.19466 was admissible as secondary evidence; Land Register entries made under the New Territories Regulation Ordinance 1910 constitute proof of pre-intermediate roots of title; and the purchasers' 49‑day delay in challenging the reply amounted to affirmation of the contract. Accordingly the plaintiffs' application was dismissed and the defendants' counterclaim allowed to stand, with assessment of damages adjourned.