20 Mar 2008
LOYAL HOPE LTD v. LEUNG PUI MING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- LOYAL HOPE LTD v. LEUNG PUI MING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA136/2007
Although the plaintiff's initial demand for production of originals beyond 15 years was not a valid requisition, the defendants nonetheless failed to give good title because they could not supply satisfactory statutory declaration or original deeds for missing pre-15-year instruments; contractual clauses did not clearly displace the vendors' common law obligation to deliver originals for documents not in the vendors' possession; therefore plaintiff validly rescinded and is entitled to return of deposits and damages to be quantified.