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Harris v Flower & Sons

Harris v Flower & Sons (1904) 74 LJ Ch 127; (1904) 91 LT 816 (CA)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1904
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

An easement (right of way) granted for the benefit of the dominant tenement cannot be used in substance to obtain access to adjoining land outside the grant (the 'rule in Harris v Flower').

Area of Law

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