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"Caused by this alleged fitting up of his foreshore during," period before the Reclamation work, actually poached the " front of his premises.
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6. Besides, the had before on the Obiter dictum of Justice Fielding Parke that the greatest care should be taken to avoid injury, he inflicted without adequate compensation, and this was concurred by Brief Justice La S. Carrington, with the notion - Though the Royal Right is bound by the Governor's point of view.
"Yet it cannot but cause us to pay full regard to the moral right?" the head also before us the instruction of the late Majesty's Government to the Colonial Government in 1857 that "a sense of justice requires that the equitable claim of the holder of the original Crown lease should be liberally considered."
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7. As the Hong Kong Government has not shown how this depreciation of 15 cents per foot has been arrived at, it remains for us to show that it is not gain an allowance for depreciation.
and to this effect, we will begin as far back as the 29th November 1887, when Gov Des Voeux, through the Colonial Secretary, wrote to me that he would be paid the sum of $1400 for 339 square feet of land taken away from Marine Lot by order of the Court, which sum, he is informed, represents the full market value for the land in question. Their valuation was at $5 per foot.
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8. Confirmatory of this valuation, I may mention that on the 3rd May 1888, the head received an offer of $200,000 for Parcel 104, Marine Lot, with buildings worth $36,000, the value of the land would be $164,000, which is a fraction over $5 per square foot.