Further Claim
In 1939, a court judgment on the claim had handed ownership of North Borneo to the heirs of the Sultanate before the formation of Malaysian federation in 1963. The judgment of Chief Justice C. F. C. Makaskie of the High Court of North Borneo in the civil suit filed by the late Dayang Dayang Hadji Piandao and eight other heirs of the Sultan of Sulu, including Datu Esmail E. Kiram (in 1950 he was crowned as Sultan Esmail E. Kiram) and Putli Tarhata Kiram, upheld the validity of the claim of the heirs.
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