Land Law: Adverse Possession, Lease, Trust of Land, Forfeiture Clause, Land Registration, Commonhold

LAND LAW

Table of Contents
Assessment 1..............................................................................................................................4
Case Study 1...............................................................................................................................4
Question 1..............................................................................................................................4
Question 2..............................................................................................................................4
Question 3..............................................................................................................................5
Question 4..............................................................................................................................6
Case Study 2...............................................................................................................................6
Question 5..............................................................................................................................6
Question 6..............................................................................................................................6
Assessment 2..............................................................................................................................8
Case Study 1...............................................................................................................................8
Question 7..............................................................................................................................8
Question 8..............................................................................................................................9
Question 9..............................................................................................................................9
Question 10..........................................................................................................................10
Case Study 2.............................................................................................................................10
Question 11..........................................................................................................................10
Question 12..........................................................................................................................11
Question 13..........................................................................................................................12
Assessment 3............................................................................................................................12
Case Study 1.............................................................................................................................12
Question 14..........................................................................................................................12
Question 15..........................................................................................................................13
Case study 2.............................................................................................................................13
Question 16..........................................................................................................................13

Question 17..........................................................................................................................14
Case Study 3.............................................................................................................................14
Question 18..........................................................................................................................14
Question 19..........................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................17

Assessment 1
Case Study 1
Question 1
Adverse possession refers to a means through which an unlawful tenant gets title to land
(Ellickson2018). Further, in case a person is able to attain adverse possession than it results in
wrongful taking and initial trespass into a right as discussed in Best v Chief Land Registrar
(2014)1
The recent developments in the adverse possession area are discussed below:
 A single adverse possessor required to make reasonable use of property in order to
accomplish the qualification of ‘continuous’ variant of adverse possession.
 The adverse possessor requires to be in actual possession of the land.
 Open and notorious requirement represent that trespasser is required to act in
alignment with ownership
Question 2
Lease
The lease can be defined as a formal agreement among the landlord and the occupier of the
property that is the tenant in which vendor agrees to vend, and purchaser agrees to procure
the property on terms and provisions that incorporate the granting and taking of a lease in a
decoded form.
License agreement
License agreement refers to a contractual agreement among a licensor and licenses commonly
utilized when a license uses only a particular part of the premise or has temporary access to
licensor’s property2.
1 EWHC 1370 (admin); (2014) 3 All ER 637,
2 S. King, Beginning Land Law. Routledge, 2015