Possession of Land in UK Law
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JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom (44302/02)
... ... They sought rights to graze or cut grass on the land after the summer of 1984, and were quite prepared to pay. When Pye failed ... ] Ch 676) held that the defendants had established title by possession but his decision was reversed by the Court of Appeal [2001] Ch 804 ... ...
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Ramnarace v Lutchman
... ... Kushmee Lutchman the appellant entered into occupation of a piece of land which they owned at Orange Field Road, Carapichaima, in central Trinidad ... The appellant accepts that she had not then been in possession of the land for sufficiently long to have acquired a possessory title, and ... ...
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Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
... ... 1988, whereby he dismissed the claim by the Council to recover possession of a plot of land situated at Chenies Avenue, Amersham, Buckinghamshire ... ...
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
... ... by the construction of the Canary Wharf Tower, which was built on land developed by the defendants. The tower is nearly 250 metres (about 800 ... an actionable nuisance, but (2) that a right of exclusive possession of land is necessary to entitle a person to sue in private nuisance. He ... ...
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Kay v Lambeth City Council; Leeds City Council v Price
... ... In August 2000 Lambeth began summary proceedings for possession against all these appellants including Mr Gorman. In his case, the claim ... On about 24 May 2004 that land was occupied by travellers without the Council!'s permission. By 2 June ... ...
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Prasad v Wolverhampton Borough Council
... ... s.63 of the Housing Act 1957, now replaced by ss.37 and 38 of the Land Compensation Act, 1973, the statute which now deals with what it calls ... (a) in any case, unless he is in lawful possession of the land from which he is displaced; ... ...
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Burmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate
... ... failed to disclose a single instance of taking or interfering with land without payment. And if moveables had been taken without compensation at ... sup.) the military authorities took possession of land for Shoreham Aerodrome. The owners were dissatisfied with the ... ...
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James v Williams
... ... judge pointed out the limitation period for an action to recover any land expires after 12 years. Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 of the Limitation Act ... any land of a deceased person and the deceased person was in possession of the land at the date of death, then the right of action is treated as ... ...
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British Railways Board v Herrington
... ... adults or children, to do anything to protect them from danger on his land however likely it may be that they will come and run into danger and ... : "A man or child may be infringing upon another's possession of land or goods at the time he is injured and it will be no bar to his ... ...
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McPhail v Persons, Names Unknown; Bristol Corporation v Ross
... ... They did not give them. So he took proceedings for possession under Order 113 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ... These were served on ... who, without any colour of right, enters on an unoccupied house or land, intending to stay there as long as he can. He may seek to justify or ... ...
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