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Scratton v Brown: 1825

When construing a conveyance of (or indeed a deed of grant over) the foreshore, it is a matter of interpretation whether what is conveyed (or granted) is the foreshore (or a right over the foreshore) at the time of the document or the foreshore as it exists from time to time.

Citations:

[1825] EngR 224, (1825) 4 B and C 485, (1825) 107 ER 1140

Links:

Commonlii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedLynn 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 . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

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Updated: 06 June 2022; Ref: scu.326315

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