2414 MC 7/2017) Ministry of Land Use and Housing Appellant Respondent for Appellant for Respondent The issues surrounding this case emanate from a historic decision of learned Justice Sauzier J in (1976) SLR 254. The facts are as follows: Mrs. Albest Leonie Albest v Paula Stravens owned Parcel V49 at Saint Louis, Mahé. In 1970, she sold a house but not the land on which it stood to her god-daughter, Mrs. Stravens, for the sum of SR400. She intended after the sale to live with Mrs. Stravens in the house but did not get on with her children. Soon after she left the house on V49 and went to live with her nephew. In 1976 Mrs. Albest averred in a plaint that she needed the land to construct her own house and that Mrs. Stravens was bound in law to remove the house she occupied from her land. Sauzier J, in dismissing the plaint, stated that Mrs. Stravens had acquired a droit de superficie over Parcel V 49 which right would only come to an end in the following two instances:
2414 MC 7/2017) Ministry of Land Use and Housing Appellant Respondent for Appellant for Respondent The issues surrounding this case emanate from a historic decision of learned Justice Sauzier J in Leonie Albest v Paula Stravens (1976) SLR 254. The facts are as follows: Mrs. Albest owned Parcel V49 at Saint Louis, Mahé. In 1970, she sold a house but not the land on which it stood to her god-daughter, Mrs. Stravens, for the sum of SR400. She intended after the sale to live with Mrs. Stravens in the house but did not get on with her children. Soon after she left the house on V49 and went to live with her nephew. In 1976 Mrs. Albest averred in a plaint that she needed the land to construct her own house and that Mrs. Stravens was bound in law to remove the house she occupied from her land. Sauzier J, in dismissing the plaint, stated that Mrs. Stravens had acquired a droit de superficie over Parcel V 49 which right would only come to an end in the following two instances:
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