South Staffordshire Water Company v Sharman
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1896 |
| Year | 1896 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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21 cases
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Parker v British Airways Board
...will give the occupier a superior right to that of the finder. 16 Authority for this view of the law is to be found in South Staffordshire Water Co. v. Sharman, (1896) 2 Q.B., 45, where the defendant was employed by the occupier of land to remove mud from the bottom of a pond. He found two ......
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Waverley Borough Council v Fletcher
...quite different principle governing unattached articles on land. 12 Unfortunately, the two principles became entangled in South Staffordshire Water Company v. Sharman [1896] 2 QB 44, another appeal to the Divisional Court from a county court, and a case which, on its facts, was just on the ......
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Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
...623), intention to control property as in cases about finders of goods on premises ( Bridges v. Hawkesworth 21 L.J.Q.B. 75; South Stafford-shire Water Co. v. Sharman [1896] 2 Q.B. 44; Hibbert v. McKiernan [1948] 2 K.B. 142) or in relation to sovereign immunity ( U.S.A. v. Dollfus Mieg u.s......
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2 books & journal articles
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The illusory right to abandon.
...Airways Bd., (1982) 1 Q.B. 1004; Bridges v. Hawkesworth, (1851) 21 L.J. Rep. 75 (Q.B.); South Staffordshire Water Co. v. Shannan, (1896) 2 Q.B. 44. (53.) An exception to this generalization would be wild animals indigenous to the area that the landowner had previously captured. As long as i......
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All is not lost: the law of lost and found.
...the thing? Did you, as landowner acquire higher rights even if you did not know of the lost item? South Staffordshire Water Co v Sharman, (1896) 2 QB44 (Eng) established that if the true owner is not known, the owner of the land on which it was found, even if he did not know about the lost ......