(Court of Appeal of Guernsey (Civil Division)) Conveyancing dispute between the partners of a firm of advocates and notaries public and their clients as to whether AFR were negligent in allowing their clients to purchase a residential property with a defective title.
Citations:
[2020] UKPC 14
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Webb v Nightingale CA 8-Mar-1957
A boundary line which the parties had agreed and marked out could supersede a plan on a conveyance expressly said to be for identification only. Lord Denning: ‘It seems to me that the line of white stakes with the white peg in the south-east corner . .
Cited – Willson v Greene (Moss third party) ChD 1971
The court could take into account objective surrounding circumstances indicating where the boundary line had been agreed and marked out by the parties. Thus extrinsic evidence of where the land was identified by pegs was admissible and the extrinsic . .
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Professional Negligence
Updated: 19 August 2022; Ref: scu.651114
