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which latter event was to take place within two years from the date of the Agreement, or so soon as the Vendors or either of them should have established a title to or given possession of the property to the Purchasers.
In addition, the Agreement provided that the Vendors should use their best endeavours to prove their title to the premises and that the expenses in connection with such proof of title should be borne by the Purchasers, and further that if the Vendors should fail to prove their title within two years from the date of the Agreement, the Purchasers should at any time thereafter have the option of cancelling such Agreement.
In accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Hong Kong Ordinance No.18 of 1900 a Claim to the property in question was laid before the Land Court in the name of the Vendors.
On the 7th December 1901 the Land Court delivered Judgment in the following terms:-
"The Court finds that on the 26th day of the 10th moon of the 17th year of Kwong Sui the Claimant Ho Lap Pun was granted by the San On Magistrate a concession having an area of 600
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