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CASES ON DEFINITION OF LAND AND ITEMS IN DISPUTE

ITEM

HELD: CASE:

1. Looms attached by bolts and nuts

Fixture Holland v Hodgson (1872)

2. Machinery in a factory in a rubber estate attached by bolts and nuts

Fixture Goh Chong Hin v Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates Sdn Bhd. (1924-1925)

3. Underground petrol tanks buried 2 feet below ground level turfed over with concrete

Fixture Shell Co. of the Federation of Malaya v Commissioner of the Federal Capital of KL [1964]

4. Bulk palm-oil storage tanks , vertical cylinders resting on pre-cast concrete pillars

Fixture Socfin Co. Ltd. V Chairman, Klang Town Council [1964]

5. Offset printing machines affixed by bolts to the floor

Fixture Wiggins Teape (M) Sdn. Bhd. v Bahagia Trading Sdn. Bhd. & Ors. [1980]

6. Overhead cranes attached to steel runways on floor of a warehouse

Fixtures Material TradingPte Ltd (In Liquidation) v. DBS Finance Ltd [1988]

7. Air-conditioning unit ‘custom made’ for a shopping complex but subject to a hire purchase agreement with ‘Romalpa clause’

Chattel Sungei Way Leasing Sdn Bhd. v Lian Seng Properties Sdn. Bhd. & Ors [1989]

8. Dyeing machines Chattel MBf Finance Bhd v Global Pacific Textile

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with legs cemented on a raised cement platform, removal of which would not cause material damage. Subject to ‘Romalpa clause’ in equipment lease agreement

Industries Sdn. Bhd.[1993]

9. Printing machines standing on their own weight

Chattel Hulme v Brigham & Anor. [1943]

10. Tapestry Chattel Leigh v Taylor (1901) 1 Ch 523

11. Marble statues of

lions in an English garden standing on their own weight

Fixtures D’ Eyncourt v Gregory (1866) LR 3 Eq 382

12. Plush tip-up seats in blocks of 4 and 8 attached to the floor of a cinema by iron standards with iron feet

Fixtures Vaudeville Electric Cinema v. Muriset [1923] 2 Ch. 74

13. Pictures in frames attached into recesses in the wall

Chattels Berkley v Poulett [1977] EGD 754

14. Escalators in a shopping complex hoisted into place by their own weight

Fixtures People’s Park Chinatown Devp. Pte Ltd. (In Liquidation) v Schindler’s Lifts (S) Pte Ltd. [1993] 1 SLR 591