CAP. 219]
Conveyancing and Property
[1988 Ed.
"occupy" includes use, inhabit, be in possession of or enjoy the land to which the word relates otherwise than as a mere servant or for the mere purpose of the care, custody or charge thereof;
"or", "other" and "otherwise" shall be construed disjunctively and not as implying similarity, unless the word "similar" or some other word of like meaning is added;
"per cent", when used in relation to a rate of interest payable in any circumstances, means the rate of interest specified payable in respect of a year, unless it is expressly provided that it is payable in respect of any other period;
"person" includes any public body or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate;
"power" includes any privilege, authority or discretion;
"public holiday" and "general holiday" mean any day which is a general holiday under the Holidays Ordinance (Cap. 149);
"registered", in relation to a document, means registered under any law applicable to the registration of that document;
“sign” includes, in the case of a person unable to write, the affixing or making of his seal, mark, thumbprint or chop;
"year" means a year according to the Gregorian calendar.
What an assignment is deemed to include
16. (1) Unless the contrary intention is expressed in the assignment, an assignment shall operate to assign, with the land, all rights, interests, privileges, easements or appurtenances in, over, belonging or appertaining to that land or at the time of the assignment used, held, occupied or enjoyed with that land and things attached to the land or permanently fastened to anything attached to the land. (Amended, 31 of 1988, s. 9)
(2) This section shall not operate to give to any person a better title than that assigned or any better title than that enjoyed by the assignor.
Assignment passes whole estate
[cf. U.K. 1925 c. 20, s. 62]
17. Unless the contrary intention is expressed in the assignment, an assignment shall operate to assign all the estate, right and interest in the land assigned which the assignor has in that land and which he has the power to assign.
[cf. U.K. 1925 c. 20, s. 63]
Receipt in body of an instrument
18. (1) A receipt for consideration in the body of an instrument shall be a sufficient discharge to the person paying the consideration and, in favour of any other person acting on the faith of the receipt, shall be sufficient evidence of payment.