Real property and conveyancing
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Strover v Harrington and others
Vendor and purchaser — Action by purchasers of house against vendors alleging misrepresentation and negligent misstatement and against purchasers’ surveyors alleging negligence — House was represented as having main drainage…
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Allen v South Eastern Electricity Board
Deed of grant — Rights granted to Electricity Board on payment of capital sum — Further payment by way of compensation provided in the event of the landowner, having obtained…
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Jones and another v Rhys-Jones
Purchaser takes conveyance in 1970 subject to restrictive covenant in conveyance of 1961, applies in 1972 for modification–There is no principle to be found in the authorities by which an…
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Cherwell District Council v Thames Water Authority
Developer succeeds in appeal to House of Lords from above decision–Important discussion of ambit of section 37 and associated provisions of Water Act 1945–Cases of new mains altogether and improvement…
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Coventry City Council v Cartwright
Inert material such as broken glass and scrap metal tipped on a site does not constitute a statutory nuisance merely on the basis that people (even children) going on to…
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Banbury Borough Council v Oxfordshire & District Water Board
Developer requiring a supply of water to two estates near Banbury held by majority to be liable to contribute towards cost of a 27-in trunk main laid along the 20…
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Barnet London Borough v S & W Transport Ltd
Skip hired out by owner and found unlit on highway–Owner serves statutory notice of defence stating fact of hire and belief (genuinely held) that lamps had been stolen–Good enough notice,…
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R v Secretary of State for the Environment, ex parte Jaywick Sands Freeholders’ Association Ltd
Clacton council should have connected up the chalets at Jaywick Sands to main drainage and supplied them with water, and the Secretary of State was wrong in absolving the council…
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Whittle v Britford Parish Council
Commons registration–Issues raised by appellant boil down to a challenge to commissioner’s finding that land was ‘waste land of the manor’–Point subject to procedural bar–Judge’s advice to appellant on ways…
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Peffer v Rigg and another
House purchased in pursuance of family agreement conveyed to A to be held in trust for A and B in equal shares as tenants in common–A transfers the house to…
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Fisons Horticulture Ltd and others v Bunting
Commons registration–Enclosure award of 1822 attacked as being formally invalid–Special provisions in local Act as to determination of boundaries conclusive in themselves–But in any case, the general provisions of the…
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Basildon District Council v Manning
Poultry-farmer claims to have fenced off scrubland and dumped manure there for dispersal–No evidence of discontinuance of possession by owners who had on two occasions applied for permission to develop…