The Land Appeal Court's jurisdiction to intervene on appeal by way of rehearing extends to factual error, not merely legal error; it may substitute its own factual findings where insufficient weight was given to evidence. A failure to recognise factual differences between cases when reasoning by analogy is an error of fact, not law, and cannot ground an appeal limited to questions of law. Verbal unaccepted offers are not excluded from consideration in land valuation merely because they could not satisfy formal requirements for enforceable contracts.
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