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Land Registration

03 May 2012
Issue: 7512 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Walker and others v Burton and another [2012] EWHC 978 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 131 (Apr)

It was an established principle that in establishing factual possession of land, everything should depend on the particular circumstances, but broadly, what should be shown as constituting factual possession was that the alleged possessor had been dealing with the land in question as an occupying owner might have been expected to deal with it and that no-one else had done so.
 

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