Squatter must prove both: factual poss’n and intention to possess – presumption is against squatter
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Rains v Buxton (1880)
Fry J: dispossession is where a person comes in and drives out the others from possn; discontinuance is where the person in possession goes out and is followed into possession
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Trustees of Grantham v Scouts (2005)
Squatters’ possn of the prop must be without the permission of the pop owner- possession with permission cannot be adverse
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BP Props v Buckler (1987)
Demonstrated how court in past used issue of permission to deny an ad possn claim
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Long v Tower Hamlets (1996)
Suggests Buckler was a singular case distinguished on its facts- courts may reject line of argument of unilateral granting of licence to occupier
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Walliss Cayton (1974)
Use of land which does not contradict the landowner’s intended future use of the prop will amount to an implied licence on part of the landowner – claim failed as use fo land was implied licence from landowner
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Buckinghamshire CC v Moran (1991)
Confirmed that s 4 of LA 1980 negates doc of implied licence
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Powell v MacFarlane (1979)
Slade J: possession = asserting an approp deg of physical control over the prop
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Seddon v Smith (1877)
Fencing off the land will come within definition of possession
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Fowley Marine v Gafford (1968)
What constitutes possession is a matter of fact and degree
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Tecbuild v Chamberlain (1969)
T show ad poss, the claimant must assert an apporop deg of control over the prop
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Ex p Davies (1990)
Disused quarry – C must intend to be in ad poss of the quarry, and must intend to possess the quarry
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Pulleyn v Hall Aggregates (1992)
It is irrelevant whether the squatter’s intentin to possess came in the mistaken belief that they already owned the prop in q’n
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Beaulane Props v Palmer (2005)
C’s period of ad poss will cease wherever any fact relating to C’s occ has been deliberately concealed
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Archangel v LBC (2001)
If C acknowledges the landowner’s title to the prop in writing, they will be unable to pursue their claim
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Sanders v Sanders (1881)
Acknowledgment of the landowner’s title is only relevant during period of ad poss, and not after limitation period has expired
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Best v Chief Land Registrar (2014)
Fact that a person is committing an offence under s 144 does not mean that they cannot claim title by ad possn under LRA 2002
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Ofulue v Bossert (2008)
Ad possn is not in breach of HR law
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JA Pye v Graham (2000)
Limitation Act 1980 is not in breach of Art 1 of ECHR because of the length of time and relative ease of defeating ad possn claim
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Fry J: dispossession is where a person comes in and drives out the others from possn; discontinuance is where the person in possession goes out and is followed into possession
Back
Rains v Buxton (1880)
Card 3
Front
Squatters’ possn of the prop must be without the permission of the pop owner- possession with permission cannot be adverse
Back
Card 4
Front
Demonstrated how court in past used issue of permission to deny an ad possn claim
Back
Card 5
Front
Suggests Buckler was a singular case distinguished on its facts- courts may reject line of argument of unilateral granting of licence to occupier
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