Lord Cranworth LC said that ‘Lord Hale gives as his reason for thinking that lands only covered by high spring tides do not belong to the Crown, that such lands are for the most part dry and manorable’, and that ‘the reasonable conclusion is, that the Crown’s right is limited to land which is for the most part not dry or maniorable’.
Judges:
Lord Cranworth LC, Alderson B and Maule J
Citations:
[1854] EngR 733, (1854) 4 De G M and G 206, (1854) 43 ER 486
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Lynn Shellfish Ltd and Others v Loose and Another SC 13-Apr-2016
The court was asked as to the extent of an exclusive prescriptive right (ie an exclusive right obtained through a long period of use) to take cockles and mussels from a stretch of the foreshore on the east side of the Wash, on the west coast of . .
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Land
Updated: 05 June 2022; Ref: scu.293590
