Cochrane v Mason: SCS 3 Mar 1866

A local road Act having provided that ‘no person shall make or erect any house or other building within 20 feet of the centre of any road ‘.
Held: (per Lord Kinloch) that this provision did not apply to the rebuilding of old houses which had been taken down in order to be rebuilt.

Citations:

[1866] SLR 1 – 200 – 1

Links:

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Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Land

Updated: 28 January 2022; Ref: scu.574428