The court discussed the need for some system of acquisition of right by user.
Lord Denning MR said: ‘the long user as of right should by our law be given a lawful origin if that can be done.’
Stamp LJ said: ‘if long enjoyment of a right is shown, the court will strive to uphold the right by presuming that it had a lawful origin.’
Judges:
Lord Denning MR, Stamp LJ
Citations:
[1974] 1 Ch 186
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Roland Brandwood and others v Bakewell Management Ltd CA 30-Jan-2003
House owners had used vehicular access across a common to get to their houses for many years. The commons owner required them to purchase the right, and they replied that they had acquired the right by lost modern grant and/or by prescription.
Cited – Bakewell Management Limited v Brandwood and others HL 1-Apr-2004
Houses were built next to a common. Over many years the owners had driven over the common. The landowners appealed a decision that they could not acquire a right of way by prescription over the common because such use had been unlawful as a criminal . .
Cited – Inglorest Investments Ltd v Robert Campbell and Another CA 2-Apr-2004
The appellants appealed an order that property be part of the estate of the deceased. There had been an agreement to assign the reversion of the lease to the claimant. That was not completed, but he later acquired the freehold reversion. No written . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Land, Limitation
Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.179839