6 Jun 2014
GUO JIANJUN AND ANOTHER v. DRAGON FAME INVESTMENT LTD
- Citation
- GUO JIANJUN AND ANOTHER v. DRAGON FAME INVESTMENT LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP318/2013
Clause 5 replaced the vendor's duty to answer requisitions on the legality of the repartitioning by obliging the vendor to provide an authorised person's certificate; that certificate was a document of title that had to be delivered within a reasonable time before completion so solicitors could carry out necessary checks in the ordinary course of business; the vendor breached clause 5 by delivering the certificate so late (after office hours on the day of completion) that it deprived the purchasers of reasonable opportunity to verify it, and that breach amounted to repudiation accepted by the…