Adverse possession
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Colchester Borough Council v Smith and others
Entry and possession by licence — Adverse possession for over 12 years — Agreement for 18-month tenancy — Acknowledgement of licence — Whether estoppel by contract — Whether agreement revived…
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JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd and another v Graham and another
Defendants purchasing farm – Claimants owning adjoining land – Claimants granting defendants licence to farm adjoining land – Claimants not replying to defendants’ request to renew licence – Defendants continuing…
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Hughes v Cork
Possessory title — Paper title remaining with one owner — Land purportedly sold to plaintiff — Plaintiff acting as owner throughout limitation period — Whether plaintiff’s belief that he was…
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MK Stadium Ltd v Commission for the New Towns
Plaintiff using owner’s land for car parking as from 1982 – Permanent surfacing not begun before 1988 – Whether earlier use amounted to taking of possession – Whether claimants then…
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Price v Hartley
Weekly oral tenancy — Non-payment of rent — Whether tenant in adverse possession as trespasser — Whether tenant’s right to tender payment of rent continuing — Whether tenant acknowledging landlord’s…
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Central London Commercial Estates Ltd v Kato Kagaku Ltd and others
Proprietor of registered leasehold title dispossessed by defendant – Defendant in adverse possession for more than 12 years – No application for registration made by defendant – Leaseholder surrendering 32-year…
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Habermehl and others v Attorney-General and others
Grant of site for specified purposes — Purposes ceasing — Grantees’ fee simple in site determined — Reverter of site — Grantees claiming adverse possession — Proceeds of sale of…
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Lodge v Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Tenant of council land — Non-payment of rent — Tenant continuing in possession of land more than 12 years thereafter — Whether belief of tenancy existing mitigated against acquisition of…
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PP 2002/45
Reeling from a judgment in favour of a squatter, it is not unknown for an embittered paper owner to talk of the Limitation Act 1980 in terms of legalised theft.
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PP 2002/32
Q About 25 years ago, the owner of a neighbouring riding school pulled down an old barn that backed onto our goods yard, leaving a space that we have used…
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PP 2001/35
Q Some 25 years ago, my company took a 20-year lease of a warehouse belonging to a family trust. In the sixth year of the lease, we built some garages…