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Bailey v Stephens (1862)
The right must have some natural connection with the estate as being for its benefit
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Re Ellenborough Park (1956)
4 essential characters of an easement: dom and servient tenements; right must benefit land; must be diversity of ownership or at least occ; right must be capable of lying in grant
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London & Blenheim Estates v Ladbroke (1994)
The grantor and grantee of the ‘easement’ did NOT, at time of the grant, hold the respective estates in the dom and servient tenements
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Moody v Steggles (1879)
The sign has to advertise the business and not merely some product sold there
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Hill v Tupper (1863)
It could not be said that the right benefitted a business carried out on the dom tenement as his business was instead carried out on the servient tenement
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Pugh v Savage (1970)
Although the dom and servient tenements need not be adjoining, they must be sufficiently proximate for a practical benefit to be conferred (see Bailey v Stephens)
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Sweet v Sommer (2004)
It is permissible to have an easement where the servient tenement is owned by, e.g. husband and wife, and dom tenement owned by husband alone
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Moncrieff v Jamieson (2007) and Dowty (No 2) (1976)
Relatively new easements e.g. to park a car and to use an airfield
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Keppel v Bailey (1834)
Lord Brougham: incidents of a novel kind cannot be devised at the fancy or caprice of any owner
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Hill v Tupper (1863)
Perceived danger of too many types of easements is land might become unduly burdened by a plethora of 3rd party claims
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Browne v Lower (1911)
There is no easement of privacy
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Sweet v Sommer (2004)
The alleged servient tenement was jointly owned by husband and wife, dom owned by husband, and a purported grant of a right of way by the husband was held to be invalid because he alone was NOT a capable grantor
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Harris v De Pinna (1886)
There is no right to a view, protection from weather and to a general flow of air over land
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Rance v Elvin (1983)
Right is unlikely to qualify as easement if it involves expenditure by servient owner (exception of fence (Crow v Wood (1971))
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Phipps v Pears (1965)
Neg right is unlikely to qualify as easement
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Copeland v Greenhalf (1952)
An easement is a right of way over someone else’s land and, if the right amountstto exclusive or joint use, it contradicts the ownership rights of the servient owner
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Grigsby v Melville (1972)
Right to store goods in a cellar was rejected as an easement as it would give an exclusive right of use – this amounts to a pos claim to legal possession
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Ward v Kirkland (1969)
Right to enter on servient land to repair wall on dom land was an easement as it involvd only a trace of exclusive use by the dom owner
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Moncrieff v Jamieson (2007)
A right giving dom owner sole use of part of servient tenement does not prevent it from being an easement, but where the dom owner has been given exclusive possession this would not be consistent with such a right
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Walby v Walby (2012)
Morgan J: the implication of a grant of an easement may be approp to enable the grantee to enjoy that which has been expressly granted
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Re Webb’s Lease (1951)
The onus is on the vendor to reserve an easement expressly in the conveyance
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Peckham v Ellison (1998)
Implied grants are based upon notion that there shall be no derogation from the grant and are more common than implied reservations
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Pinnington v Gallard (1853)
Easements of nec are implied usually in landlocked close situations so that the dom owner can gain access to the dom tenement
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Walby v Walby (2012)
Morgan J: test for nec = strict and the facts must be sucvh that the land retained cannot be used at all without the implication of an easement
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Manjang v Drammeh (1991)
3 conditions reqd for easement of nec: common owner; only one access route (Donaldson (2006)); not excluded by express contrary intentions of parties (Hillman (1997))
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Adealon International v Merton LBC (2007)
CA: an easement of nec could arise in a tripartite scenario where the vendor retained land which was cut off from the highway, however, one of the burdening plots of land was owned by a 3rd party
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Titchmarsh v Royston (1899)
The land could still be accessed by climbing a 20ft cutting – thus, no easement of nec implied
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Manjang v Drammeh (1991)
PC: an available access by water, although less convenient than access by land, was sufficient to negate easement by nec
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Sweet v Sommer (2004)
Possibility of demolishing shed to gain alt access did not prevent easement of nec being implied
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Stafford v Lee (1993)
A right of way for construction while a house was being built was implied as it was the common intention of the parties that the house was to be erected on the dom land
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Wong v Beaumont (1965)
Implied easements for ventilation system – common intention to have restaurant
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Re Webb’s Lease (1951)
In approp circums, a common intention easement can be impliedly reserved – however, it must be shown that the facts are not reasonably consistent with any explanation other than that such a reservation was intended
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Walby v Walby (2012)
Morgan J: it is not sufficient that the facts are simply consistent with the implication of the reservation of an easement
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Davies v Bramwell (2007)
2 stage approach: court must find a common intention that dom land should be used in particular way; the grant or reservn must be required to give effect to that intention
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Wheeldon v Burrows (1879)
When a vendor sells of part of his land, the purchaser will acquire through implication all of those continuous and apparent quasi-easements which are nec to the reasonable enjoyment of the prop granted, and which have been and are at the timeof the
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Loveluck-Edwards (2012)
Subj to conditions in Wheeldon v Burrows, upon the grant of part of a tenement, it will be implied that the buyer will acquire all quasi-easements over land retained by vendor
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Kent v Kavanagh (2006)
There must be common ownership and occupation of entirety of the land prior to Wheeldon v Burrows being triggered – one without other is insufficient
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Schwann v Cotton (1916)
The vendor must have sold the dom tenement and retained the rest
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Wright v Macadam (1940)
The permissive right to use a coal shed passed as a legal easement under s 62 on the grant of a new lease
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Wheeler v JJ Saunders (1995)
Both conditions of reasonably nec to the enjoyment of the land and the right being continuous and apparent must be satisfied
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Loveluck-Edwards (2012)
Morgan J: not by force, or contentiously, not secretly or by stealth and not precariously or by permission; here, oral gentleman’s agreement made use precario
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London Tara Hotels (2011)
The use must satisfy tripartite test of no force, no stealth, no permission – there is no further test; also, silent acquiescence is not the same as permission
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Kent v Kavanagh (2006)
Claim to a prescriptive easement to use a path failed as owner had asked permission to use it
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Goldsmith v Burrow Construction (1987)
A right of way used precariously (blocked at irregular intervals) cannot develop into an easement
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Davis v Whitby (1974)
User can be by successive owners of the dom tenement
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Simmons v Dobson (1991)
Gen rule = easements cannot be prescribed for by one tenant against another tenant of the same landlord
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Bakewell Management v Brandwood (2004)
This would be an unlawful grant and incapable of vesting any right in the guarantee
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London Tara Hotels (2011)
Lord Neuberger MR: the law of prescription is complex in that ity consists of a no of sets of diff rules; notoriously ill-drafted Prescription Act 1832
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Loveluck-Edwards (2012)
Claimants could not rely on common law prescription because the tenements had not been in common ownership sometime around 1920 – also, def’s obstructing and barring of the right of way for 8yrs before commencement of proceedings prevented a prescrip
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Dalton v Angus (1881)
If a claimant can show actual enjoyment for a period of 20yrs, the court is prepared to pretend that there was once a grant that has now been lost
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Tehidy Minerals v Norman (1971)
The claim may be defeated if proof is given that during the entire period since user started there has been no person capable of granting easements
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Colls v Home and Colonial Stones (1904)
The amount of light that a building is entitled to is that which is required for any ordinary purpose for which the building has been constructed or adapted
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MacAdams Homes v Robinson (2004)
The dom land was redeveloped with the result that a former bakery was demolished and replaced by 2 detached houses
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Cook v Bath (1868)
An easement over the passageway to which the back door gave access was held to be abandoned after being bricked up for 40yrs
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Huckvale v Aegan Hotels (1989)
If there is no longer any practical possibility of the easement ever again benefitting the dom land tenement in the manner originally contemplated, the easement will lapse
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National Guarantee Manure v Donald (1859)
A right to a defined supply of water to a canal ceased to exist when the canal was later filled up and turned into a railway
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CDC2020 v Ferreira (2005)
A right of way to reach garages was not abandoned even though the garages were demolished and replaced by a basement car park
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Benn v Hardinge (1992)
Non-user for 175 years of a right of way granted in 1818 did NOT of itself indicate an intention to abandon
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Card 2

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4 essential characters of an easement: dom and servient tenements; right must benefit land; must be diversity of ownership or at least occ; right must be capable of lying in grant

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Re Ellenborough Park (1956)

Card 3

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The grantor and grantee of the ‘easement’ did NOT, at time of the grant, hold the respective estates in the dom and servient tenements

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Card 4

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The sign has to advertise the business and not merely some product sold there

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Card 5

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It could not be said that the right benefitted a business carried out on the dom tenement as his business was instead carried out on the servient tenement

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