Adverse Possession
[pms-restrict] The owner of land can sometimes lose ownership to a trespasser by "adverse possession". The law is complicated: Where the land is unregistered or…
Boundaries and Adverse Possession
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Boundary Disputes
This is another interesting boundary case in which the court had to determine whether the parties to a boundary dispute were bound by the decision of…
Adverse Possession
Adverse Possession : Litigants Risk Tw o Sets of Proceedings – A Problem Made Worse by Brown v Ridley [2024] UKUT 14 (LC) Matthew Hall delves into the…
Practical Tips for Boundary Problems
Contributed by Ian Quayle of IQ Legal Training ( ian@iqlegaltraining.com ). Dealing with boundary problems Some practical tips for busy practitioners…
Trees and hedges
High hedges Part 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 gives local authorities powers to deal with complaints by neighbours in relation to high…
Adverse possession
The owner of land can sometimes lose ownership to a trespasser by "adverse possession". The law is complicated: Where the land is unregistered or…
T-marks
Who owns the boundary feature? What do T marks mean? Seeckts v Derwent [2004] EWCA Civ 393 This was a dispute as to position of a boundary turning…
Experts
Expert evidence in boundary disputes Childs v Vernon [2007] EWCA Civ 305 There is no new law in the case. However, there is a passage in the judgment…
Boundary agreements
Introduction If parties to a boundary dispute enter into a compromise the agreement settling the dispute will not be binding if it falls foul of the…
Deeds, plans and boundary features
Introduction On this page we are considering the following question: "Who owns the disputed land according to 'the deeds'?". That person is commonly…
Presumptions
This page is concerned with the hedge to ditch presumption and the hedge to hedge presumption. Hedge and ditch presumption Introduction The…
Tidal waters
Foreshore Prescriptive right Lynn Shellfish Ltd v Loose [2016] UKSC 14 Summary The Supreme Court ruled on the extent of an exclusive prescriptive…
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