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Possession as bar to enforcement
  • 7 Dec 1999

    LEE SHEK MUI AND OTHERS v. CHEUNG FUK SAN

    Citation
    LEE SHEK MUI AND OTHERS v. CHEUNG FUK SAN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1771/1999

    The mortgage dated 4 November 1907 is incapable of subsistence or is unenforceable by operation of the Limitation Ordinance because the plaintiffs and their predecessors have been in uninterrupted possession since at least 1968, there has been no demand for payment of principal or interest, and the evidential facts establish that limitation and related equitable considerations bar enforcement; the declaration is confined to Section J of Lot No. 465 and does not affect other parts of Lot No. 465.