Real property and conveyancing
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Observatory Hill Ltd v Camtel Investments SA
Party Walls — London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 — Surveyor’s party wall award — Damage to adjoining owner’s property to be made good at cost of building owner –…
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In re Beechwood Homes Ltd’s application
Restrictive covenants — Original conveyances envisaged a particular layout — Whether change of layout amounted to derogation of grant causing restrictions on building and use of land for roads to…
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P B Frost Ltd v Green
Jurisdiction of High Court–Mortgagees’ claim for possession–Land in question two separate hereditaments–First hereditament with net annual value for rating of £742–Second hereditament agricultural land not liable to be rated–Question whether…
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Barclays Bank plc v Boulter
Mortgage — Defence — Pleadings — Joint owners — Joint charge over matrimonial home — ‘All monies’ charge — Whether defence based on misrepresentation and undue influence must plead constructive…
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R v Suffolk County Council, ex parte Steed and another
Commons — Village green — Whether council entitled to refuse registration where right claimed based on 20 years’ use after January 2 1970
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Calabar (Woolwich) Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd
Claim for a declaration that the conduct of a freezer centre at certain premises was a breach of a covenant in a lease which restricted the use of the ground…
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Harlow v Hartog
Restrictive covenant–No building other than private dwelling-house of a certain annual value–Proposal to enclose existing swimming pool in ground of private dwelling-house–Injunction sought by neighbour–Whether ‘building scheme’ in force–Whether proposed…
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Swansea City Council v Glass (Executor)
Limitation Act 1980 — Claim by local authority for expenditure — A landowner failing to comply with compulsory repair notices — Whether proceedings issued to recover expenditure statute-barred — Appeal…
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Marchant v Capital & Counties plc
London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 — Dispute as to effect of party wall award — Appeal from decision of Sir Douglas Frank QC, sitting as a deputy High Court…
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Kinch and another v Bullard and others
Joint tenancy — Notice of severance — Service — Law of Property Act 1925 section 196 — Notice served by post and intercepted by wife before husband received it –…
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Blue Town Investments Ltd v Higgs & Hill plc
Right to light — Injunctions sought by plaintiffs to protect access of light to windows — Motion by defendants, building developers, under RSC Ord 18, r 19 or inherent jurisdiction,…
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Production Technology Consultants Ltd v Bartlett
Misrepresentation Act 1967 — Innocent misrepresentation — Purchase of freehold house at auction sale in reliance on innocent misrepresentation in the particulars — Particulars stated that the first floor was…