How Adverse Possession Is Interpreted in Common Law
17th Jun 2019
Introduction: Issues in relation to the doctrine of adverse possession and how it has been interpreted through the common law and through statute....
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The Rationale for Half and Fully Secret Trusts
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R (on the application of Beresford) v Sunderland CC
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Lovett v Fairclough (1991)
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Introduction: The defendant owned an estate adjoining a river owned by the claimant. His predecessor in title had fished from the river for a long period......
Entick v Carrington [1765]
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Introduction: On 11th November 1762 the defendant and three other named individuals entered a property belonging to the claimant...
Melluish v BMI (No. 3)
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Alfred F Beckett Ltd v Lyons
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Introduction: The case involved a claim made by the plaintiff that as an inhabitant of the County Palatine of Durham......
Union Lighterage Co. v London Graving Dock Co
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Borman v Griffith [1930]
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Introduction: Borman leased a garden which included a paddock, orchard and adjoining gardens, on a long term basis....
Leigh v Taylor [1902]
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Introduction: Madame De Falbe was a life tenant of a stately home, in which she had hung valuable tapestries belonging to her. The canvasses were nailed......
Bannister v Bannister [1948]
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Introduction: Constructive trust of land; oral agreement to allow vendor to occupy a house rent free....
Bass Holdings Ltd v Morton Music Ltd
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Introduction: The plaintiffs granted the defendants a fifteen-year lease, with the option to extend the lease for a period...
London & Blenheim Estates Ltd v Ladbroke Retail Parks Ltd
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Pettitt v Pettitt
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Introduction: A woman purchased a matrimonial home for herself and her husband to live in out of her own sums and conveyed......
Lloyd v Dugdale [2001]
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Introduction: The defendant had arranged for his company to do building work on the claimant's land on the understanding that the claimant would grant......
Duke of Norfolk v Arbuthnot
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Bankway Properties Ltd v Pensfold-Dunsford
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Stockdale v Hansard
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Haywood v Brunswick Permanent Benefit Building Society
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Oxley v Hiscock
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Sandhu v Farooqi [2003]
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Bridle v Ruby [1989]
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