On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven  object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his  solicitors that the option had not been registered, sold and been paid the farm   five hundred pounds and after the sale  by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen  could have exercised the option and neither  or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight  wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy  commenced proceedings against his father  against his mother's executors  the declaration of the option was .