The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1960] AC 44
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
SHEIK MOHAMED BASHIR APPELLANT; AND COMMISSIONER OF LANDS RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL FOR EASTERN AFRICA.
1959 Dec. 1.
LORD COHEN, LORD DENNING and LORD JENKINS.
Landlord and Tenant
— Forfeiture of lease
— Relief from forfeiture
— Lease of Crown land
— “Special conditions”
— Breach
— Whether “covenants” or “conditions of defeasance”
— Relief from forfeiture
— Jurisdiction of court
— Principles applicable in granting 45relief
—
Crown Lands Ordinance, 1915 (Laws of Kenya, 1948 Rev., c. 155), s. 83
—
Registration of Titles Ordinance, 1919 (Laws of Kenya, 1948 Rev., c. 160), ss. 20, 21; Sch. I, form B (1).
Eastern Africa
— Kenya.