The court considered a claim for the right to take mussels from the foreshore.
Held: Erle CJ directed the jury that ‘there is evidence of what to my mind was a very strong act of ownership in respect to the taking of mussels’.
Citations:
[1866] EngR 10 (B), (1866) 4 F and F 1048
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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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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Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.280721