Conveyancing Boundaries
Notices to complete are double-edged weapons that require careful handling . A notice to complete is a powerful weapon because it makes time of the essence of the contract.
A landowner claiming prescriptive rights of light must prove that the windows in its building have had uninterrupted access to light for 20 years.
Solicitors often ask clients to pre-sign documents to facilitate completion of a conveyancing transaction. Where both parties need to sign a transfer, the buyer will usually sign first.
Mortgage – Bridging loan – Buy-to-let – Appellant convicted of fraud in connection with buy-to-let mortgage transactions – Whether appellant making false representations in certificates of title as alleged –…
Boundary dispute, Conveyance
Easements — Drainage — Extent of right — Right to use and connect to service-conducting installations in, on or under adjacent property — Whether right restricted to drain crossing claimants’…
Sale of land — Proof of title — Nature of title contracted for — Whether sufficient to prove possessory title — Appeal dismissed
Notice to complete — Completion date — Request to vendor’s solicitor for time extension — Whether failure to respond on the day amounting to agreement to extension — Appellant’s claim…
Agreement for lease — Enforcement Whether agreement void for failure to incorporate all agreed terms in one document — Section 2 of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 — Claim dismissed
Sale of land — Proof of title — Nature of title contracted for — Whether sufficient to prove possessory title — Appeal dismissed
Breach of covenant — Compensation — Damages — Agreement for sale of land to claimant — Covenant against building — No formal transfer of land — Appellant building on land…