Cases - Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran

Record details

Name
Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
Date
[1990]; [1989]
Citation
Ch 623; 3 WLR 152
Legislation
Keywords
Limitation of action - adverse possession - whether acts of possession by adjoining owner sufficient to establish animus possidendi - whether paper title owner dispossessed - use by adjoining owner as part of garden - Limitation Act 1980, section 15, schedule 1, evidence - adverse possession - privilege - whether correspondence marked "without prejudice" privileged - whether offer to negotiate or assertion of right
Summary

The nature of the acts carried out on the land, taking into account the usual use of the land, are relevant to the question of possession in a claim for adverse possession.