Possession of Land in UK Law

  • JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom (44302/02)
    • House of Lords
    • 04 July 2002
    ......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 ......
  • Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 February 1989
    ...... 1988, whereby he dismissed the claim by the Council to recover possession of a plot of land situated at Chenies Avenue, Amersham, Buckinghamshire ......
  • Ramnarace v Lutchman
    • Privy Council
    • 21 May 2001
    ...... 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 ......
  • Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 24 April 1997
    ...... 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 ......
  • British Railways Board v Herrington
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1972
    ...... 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 ......
  • Steadman v Steadman
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1974
    ...... may be brought upon any contract for the sale or other disposition of land or any interest in land, unless the agreement upon which such action is ... a purchaser under an oral agreement has been permitted to take possession of or to do things on the land which he has agreed to buy. But sometimes ......
  • Burmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 1964
    ...... 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 ......
  • Miss Behavin' Ltd v Belfast City Council
    • House of Lords
    • 25 April 2007
    ......Control of the use of land is permitted under Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the Convention and ...At issue there was whether a landowner with the right to possession of land (in that case a public authority, but the same question would ......
  • Re Atlantic Computer Systems Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 July 1990
    ......An example of the first category is where a mortgagee seeks possession of property mortgaged to him. An example of the second category is where a ...In the case of a lessor of land let to a company, the appropriate category depends on the remedy the ......
  • Kay v Lambeth City Council; Leeds City Council v Price
    • House of Lords
    • 08 March 2006
    ......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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