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Hong Kong Case Law

Transfer of legal estate
  • 10 Sept 1999

    TO SAN WA AND OTHERS v. TO YING LUN, Deceased

    Citation
    TO SAN WA AND OTHERS v. TO YING LUN, Deceased
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP6018/1998

    The court found on the evidence that the land was held on a bare trust for Madam Lam Shi who intended to divest her beneficial interest, that the trustee died intestate leaving legal title in his estate and that the plaintiffs were rightful transferees; accordingly, exercising the power under Trustee Ordinance s45(e) the court vested the legal estates described in the schedules in the 1st to 6th Plaintiffs subject to the plaintiffs' undertaking to file an affirmation exhibiting the power of attorney to cure a gap in the chain of title.