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Couper v Albion Properties

[2013] EWHC 2993 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division
Year2013
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Long-standing physical mooring of vessels off a riparian wharf gives rise to neither title by adverse possession to the bed of a tidal navigable river nor any prescriptive franchise of mooring, and unauthorised moorings that obstruct navigation constitute private nuisance and (where special damage is shown) actionable public nuisance.

Area of Law

General

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