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to recover the land from the adverse possessor has been extinguished, as also has its title, and that by a combination of the negative effect of the Ordinance on the Crown's title and the positive effect of adverse possession, the adverse possessor may now have a new estate of his own, namely a title similar to a freshold interest or, more likely in the New Territories, a leasehold interest greater than that of the Crown.

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Incidentally, the possible one exception to which I have referred in the first New Territories Land Court which I understand was established in 1900 and had its first office in a school building inside the Walled City *

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(F.T.M. Jones) Crown Solicitor 11 July 1981

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