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Buckinghamshire CC v Moran

[1990] Ch 623; [1989] 2 All ER 225
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Year1989
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A squatter establishes adverse possession by factual possession of the land coupled with an intention to possess (animus possidendi) — an intention to exclude the world including the paper owner so far as practicable — and there is no rule that the owner cannot be dispossessed merely because the squatter's acts do not interfere with the owner's intended future use of the land.

Area of Law

General

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