Bird v The Great Eastern Railway Company: 13 Jun 1865

By a memorandum not under seal, the plaintiff hired of the owner of land the sole and exclusive liberty of shooting arid fishing over it for three years. A portion of the land was (pending the term) sold to the defendants, who constructed a line of railway across it, to the great detriment of the plaintiff’s right of sporting :-Held, that the plaintiff had not such an interest in the lands as to entitlement to claim compensation under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.–2. semble, that a grant under seal would have given him no better title.

[1865] EngR 573, (1865) 19 CB NS 268, (1865) 141 ER 790
Commonlii
England and Wales

Land

Updated: 16 December 2021; Ref: scu.281485