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Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran

[1990] Ch 623; [1989] EWCA Civ 11; [1989] 2 All ER 225 (CA)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division), England and Wales
Year1989
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Adverse possession requires factual possession together with an intention to possess (animus possidendi); there is no rule that an owner with a future intended use cannot lose title to a squatter whose acts do not interfere with that future plan.

Area of Law

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Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1988] EWCA Civ 14; [1989] Ch 1; [1988] 2 All ER 147 (CA)
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Powell v McFarlane (1979) 38 P & CR 452

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