Adverse possession
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PP 2003/57
Monday, 13 October is an important day for both squatters and landowners. This is when the Land Registration Act 2002 comes into force, introducing significant changes to the law of…
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Purbrick v Hackney London Borough Council
Defendant council owning neglected building — Claimant storing equipment in building and boarding up doorways — Whether such use amounting to adverse possession — Claim allowed
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Waterman and others v Smith
Adverse possession — Whether appellant in continuous factual possession of land — Whether possession interrupted by visits by true owner — Judge finding insufficient manifestation of intention to possess –…
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Rhondda Cynon Taff Borough Council v Watkins
Compulsory purchase order — Limitation — Appellant landowner reoccupying land after entry by council — Council vesting land in themselves by deed poll — Whether appellant’s adverse possession barring council’s…
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Central Midlands Estates Ltd v Leicester Dyers Ltd
Adverse possession — Parking — Right of way — Defendant’s employees parking on claimant’s land and using access road for that purpose — Claimant seeking vacation of caution registered by…
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Buckingham County Council v Moran
Adverse possession — Action to recover possession of land — Plot purchased for road scheme but not used by owner — Squatter placed lock on gate — Whether owner dispossessed…
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Bladder v Phillips
Title — Validity — Plaintiff claiming adverse possession — Plaintiff also claiming ownership — Whether evidence to show intention to exclude others — Whether defendant dispossessed — Defendant’s appeal allowed
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PP 2002/161
Squatter’s intentions need not be hostile. The required mental element (animus possidendi) that goes into conduct amounting to adverse possession for the purpose of the Limitation Act 1980 has been…
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JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd and another v Graham and another
Defendants claiming possessory title under Limitation Act 1980 — Occupation commencing on terms of successive grazing licences — Claimant owner refusing to renew licences — Defendants continuing to farm disputed…
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Williams v Jones and another
Adverse possession — Appellant purchasing land — Former tenant of land claiming acquisition of title by adverse possession — Judge finding adverse possession established — Whether former tenant required to…
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PP 2002/84
Tolerated squats in council properties – Whether adverse title sufficiently asserted by dispossession of council owner – Whether paper title acknowleged – Whether claimant or predecessor occupying as licensee.