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Assent of estate property
  • 23 Mar 2005

    LEUNG CHI MAN v. MOK SAU LIM

    Citation
    LEUNG CHI MAN v. MOK SAU LIM
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1599/2003

    The court held the account statements supplied were not a true and perfect inventory and ordered a verified inventory and full account under s56; found the testator imposed two binding conditions (repayment to daughter and maintenance of widow) amounting to obligations enforceable as secret-trust-type obligations but the alleged obligation to contribute to purchase of Charming Garden was too uncertain to bind; found Plaintiff agreed or was estopped to relinquish entitlement to the pond resumption compensation, so no proprietary misappropriation actionable for tracing, but ordered the Defendan…