Des Barres and Another v Shey: 1873

The defendants resisted a claim for possession asserting adverse possession from 1815 or 1832. This included possession during periods over which they had granted tenancies or licences but where the tenants or licensees had been in occupation thereunder and had paid rent to the defendant or his predecessors.
Held: The defendants were taken to have acquired legal possession by way of possession; the licensee’s or lessee’s occupation was properly counted by the squatter as acts of possession as against the paper owner.

Citations:

(1873) 29 LT (NS) 592

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedRoberts v Swangrove Estates Ltd and Another ChD 14-Mar-2007
The court heard preliminary applications in a case asserting acquisition of land by adverse possession, the land being parts of the foreshore of the Severn Estuary.
Held: A person may acquire title to part of the bed of a tidal river by . .
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Land, Limitation

Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.267348