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Hong Kong Case Law

Assignment of chattels
  • 28 May 1974

    KWEI WAH SHAN v. JOHN KUI AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    KWEI WAH SHAN v. JOHN KUI AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV26/1973

    On full appraisal of the evidence the trial judge was entitled to find that the jewellery was given outright to the second defendant rather than transferred on trust; the plaintiff failed to establish the necessary entrustment and the circumstances and uncontested facts supported an inference of gift, so the appeal was dismissed; separate claims against the second defendant for land and shares were not maintainable absent pleadings against her.