The court construed the devise of ‘my freehold farm and land situate at Edgware and now in the occupation of James Bray’ as including copy holds which were part of his farm and land situate at Edgware and in the occupation of James Bray, even though there were also freeholds which undoubtedly were included in the description given.
Judges:
Chitty J
Citations:
(1886) 31 Ch D 314
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Rogers and Another v Freeguard and Another CA 19-Oct-1998
The parties had drawn up and executed an option agreement. When a court considered an option to purchase ‘land known as . .’, it was able to consider extrinsic evidence to establish just what was included where the identification in the deed was . .
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Updated: 25 November 2022; Ref: scu.197727