Legal Titles in UK Law

  • JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom (44302/02)
    • House of Lords
    • 04 July 2002
    ... ... land is registered it is difficult to see any justification for a legal rule which compels such an apparently unjust result, and even harder to ... ...
  • Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 February 1989
    ... ... Moran and his legal advisers were well aware of the possibility that Mr. and Mrs. Wall had ... basis for rejecting unmeritorious claims to squatters' titles, even, we may be sure, where the land had been enclosed. By 1976 the ... ...
  • Independent Trustee Services Ltd v GP Noble Trustees Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 February 2012
    ... ... now asserted by ITS on behalf of the pension schemes and if the legal title vested in Glencalvie Limited he had no title to the monies at all ... make [A] a trustee despite the severance of the legal and equitable titles". He said this on the premise, stated at page 703, that if A held on trust ... ...
  • Beaulane Properties Ltd v Palmer
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 March 2005
    ... ... He also said that he would take legal advice. He did not make it clear that the previous arrangement had not ... on possession, had in establishing his title: "Many titles, notwithstanding long enjoyment, are found unmarketable; and if, after ... ...
  • Site Developments (Ferndown) Ltd and Others v Cuthbury Ltd and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 January 2010
    ... ... , in the course of the trial and afterwards, numerous plans, maps, titles, photographs and other contemporaneous materials. All of them have some ... Mr Bill Rogers did not pretend to know where the legal boundaries were, and I take his comments in that spirit. More importantly, ... ...
  • Hill v Transport for London
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 May 2005
    ... ... of any land to Shanks, BTSL transferred the land in both its titles to the claimants, a transfer stated to be for a consideration of ... He could not explain what was secured by the legal charge to Shanks dated 29 March 1988. Although the transfer of 26 February ... ...
  • Wills v Wills
    • Privy Council
    • 01 December 2003
    ... ... It shows that Elma was thinking of taking legal advice. George must have done the same because he had a formal notice ... , including a direction under section 158 of the Registration of Titles Act (Cap 340) ... ...
  • Bannerman Town, Millars and John Millars Eleuthera Association v Eleuthera Properties Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 15 October 2018
    ... ... to the parties — Adverse possession — Section3, Quieting Titles Act — Section 3(4), Conveyancing Act ... Bannerman ... One relevant result is that a legal estate may still be owned by co-owners as tenants in common, each of whom ... ...
  • Gardener et Al v Lewis
    • Privy Council
    • 25 July 1998
    ... ... title to land — Sections 68, 70 and 71 of the Registration of Titles Act — Appeal allowed. Lord Browne-Wilkinson ... 1 ... that the issue to them of the Certificate of Title makes them the legal and equitable owners of the whole of the land ... 2 ... ...
  • Best v The Chief Land Registrar The Secretary of State for Justice (Interested Party)
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 07 May 2014
    ... ... "living in" a residential building, pursuant to section 144(1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, LASPOA, has ... of limitation of actions in extinguishing stale claims and obsolete titles, not just as an act of peace for long dormant claims, but also because it ... ...
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