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Cards In This Set
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Easement
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Right to do something over someone elses land
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Easement legal?
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S1(2) LPA 25 capable of being legal. if for estate in fee simple or term of years absolute, s52 LPA by deed, (registration if reg'd land -s27LRA02)
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Re Ellenborough Park
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Reqs of ease 1.dom & serv tenement 2.right must benefit dom tenement 3. dom & serv tens owned and occupied by diff people 4. right must lie in grant
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Ways of acquiring easement
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Express, implied (necessity, common intention, Wheeldon v Burrows, s62LPA) Presumed
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Corp of London v Riggs
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Necessity not convenience
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Pwllbach Colliery v Woodman
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Common intention
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Wheeldon v Burrows
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1.continuous 2.apparent 3.necessary 4.in use by owner at time of grant
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S62 LPA 25
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Implies conveyance incs all rights, turns licence into easement, must be diversity of occupation
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Presumed easement
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1.common law-time immemorial,2.lost modern grant-right exercised>20yrs 3.Prescription Act 1832-20 yrs b4 action, 40yrs=right absolute(light=20yrs)
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Protection of easement
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Unreg - D(iii) land charge reg - legal easements by deed - s27, eq easements - s32, legal easements implied or prescription - sch3 para 2
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Hunter v Canary Wharf
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No easement of right to TV
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Dalton v Angus
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No right to view (but there is a right to light)
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Excl of serv owner cases
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Copeland v Greenhalf, Blenheim estates v Ladbroke, Miller v Emcer
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Copeland v Greenhalf
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Can't exclude servient owner
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Blenheim Estates v Ladbroke
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Right must leave servient owner w reasonable use of land
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