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Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd v Goh Chor Cheok

[1999] 3 SLR(R) 236 (also reported [2000] 1 SLR 45)
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtHigh Court of Singapore
Year1999
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Where 12 years' adverse possession was completed before land was brought under the Land Titles Act, the documentary owner's title was already extinguished, and a caveat is the means of protecting the adverse possessor on conversion to registered land.

Area of Law

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