In a claim for the adverse possession of land, the court is to determine whether the acts of user do or do not amount to dispossession of the owner, the character of the land, the nature of the acts done on it and the intention of the squatter must be considered.
Citations:
[1958] 1 QB 159, [1957] 3 All ER 593
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Applied – Wallis’s Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shell-Mex and BP Ltd CA 10-Jul-1974
A strip of land between a holiday camp and a garage had been conveyed as an intended roadway. It had not been fenced. A plot of land was sold by the previous farmer to the garage. Later the plaintiffs bought the farm, excluding the roadway, and the . .
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Land, Limitation
Updated: 08 May 2022; Ref: scu.182990