Occupancy in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • Westminster City Council v Southern Railway Company
    • House of Lords
    • 20 May 1936

    The question in every such case must be one of fact, viz., whose position in relation to occupation is paramount, and whose position in relation to occupation is subordinate; but, in my opinion, the question must be considered and answered in regard to the position and rights of the parties in the premises in question, and in regard to the purpose of the occupation of those premises.

    A familiar instance of this competing occupancy is the case of the lodger. In view of the frequently fleeting nature of the occupancy of a lodger, the convenience of this view, indeed the necessity for it, is obvious; but it purports to be based upon the paramountcy of the landlord's occupation, arising from his control of the front door and his general control over and right of access to the lodgers' rooms for the proper conduct of the lodging house.

  • Lloyds Bank Plc v Rosset
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 May 1988

    If this is right, the pieces of the jigsaw fit together reasonably well. A purchaser or mortgagee inspects and enquires before completion, in the established fashion. If it does not, then subsequent entry of a person into occupation before the transfer or mortgage has been registered (and "completed" for the purposes of section 19) does not have the consequence of creating an overriding interest under paragraph (g) in relation to that freehold or mortgage.

  • Arbuckle Smith & Company Ltd v Greenock Corporation
    • House of Lords
    • 18 February 1960

    It is evident, therefore, that there will not be occupation in the context of rating unless some use is made of the hereditament in the course of the relevant year. "Use" is not a word of precise meaning, but in general it conveys the idea of enjoyment derived by the user from the corpus of the object enjoyed.

  • Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd v Boland
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1980

    The purpose, in each system, is the same, namely, to safeguard the rights of persons in occupation, but the method used differs. In the case of unregistered land, the purchaser's obligation depends upon what he has notice of—notice actual or constructive. In the case of registered land, it is the fact of occupation that matters. If there is actual occupation, and the occupier has rights, the purchaser takes subject to them.

  • Wheat v E. Lacon & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 February 1966

    Translating this general principle into its particular application to dangerous premises, it becomes simply this: wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there, then he is an "occupier" and the person coming lawfully there is his "visitor": and the "occupier" is under a duty to his "visitor" to use reasonable care.

  • Uratemp Ventures Ltd v Collins
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 2001

    The words "dwell" and "dwelling" are not terms of art with a specialised legal meaning. They are ordinary English words, even if they are perhaps no longer in common use. They mean the same as "inhabit" and "habitation" or more precisely "abide" and "abode", and refer to the place where one lives and makes one's home.

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Legislation
  • Housing (Scotland) Act 2014
    • Scotland
    • Wednesday January 01, 2014
    ... ... The functions and jurisdiction of the sheriff in relation to actions arising from the following tenancies and occupancy agreements are transferred to the First-tier Tribunal— ... ...
  • Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004
    • Scotland
    • Thursday January 01, 2004
    ... ... (a) any person who, by virtue of a tenancy or an occupancy arrangement, occupies the relevant house mentioned in subsection (1) F53 ... ...
  • Housing Act 1988
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Friday January 01, 1988
    ... ... , no tenancy or licence (whenever made) of a dwelling-house that is in Wales can be an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy. (2) Accordingly, ... ...
  • Housing (Scotland) Act 2006
    • Scotland
    • Sunday January 01, 2006
    ... ... (5) A landlord commits an offence if the landlord enters into a tenancy or occupancy arrangement in relation to a house at any time during which a repairing standard enforcement order has effect in relation to the house ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • Lease structures and occupancy costs in eco-labeled buildings
    • No. 38-1, January 2020
    • Journal of Property Investment & Finance
    • 31-46
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether energy-efficient green buildings tend to provide net lease structures over gross lease ones. It then considers whether owners benefit by...
  • OCCUPANCY DISCOUNTS IN THE U.S. RENTAL HOUSING MARKET*
    • No. 45-4, November 1983
    • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • Urban routines, spatial occupancy, and their effects on outdoor crime in Barcelona
    • No. 21-5, September 2024
    • European Journal of Criminology
    • 0000
    Based on mobile phone data from the city of Barcelona, Spain, generalized linear models are used to analyse the relationship between urban mobilities and the spatial and temporal patterning of robb...
  • THE MANAGEMENT OF SHELF SPACE
    • No. 15-1, January 1985
    • VINE
    • 39-42
    A recurrent problem in library administration is that libraries do not expand evenly. In a small library (of, say, less than 100,000 volumes) the daily reports of staff responsible for shelving are...
    ... ... in all libraries; but in larger libraries it is difficult to obtain from these reports alone a clear view of the general pattern of shelf occupancy. The larger the library, the more important it becomes to assess ad hoc reports on tactical shelving difficulties in the context of a broader ... ...
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