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Hill v Tupper

(1863) 2 H & C 121; 159 ER 51
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Exchequer (England and Wales)
Year1863
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A right granted for purely commercial benefit, unconnected with the use and enjoyment of the grantee's land, cannot exist as an easement; a new species of incorporeal right cannot be created and annexed to land at will.

Area of Law

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R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2006] 1 AC 173; [2005] UKHL 37
Canada Trust Co v Stolzenberg (No 2) [1998] 1 WLR 547 (CA); affd [2000] UKHL 51; [2002] 1 AC 1 (HL)
Broadmoor Special Hospital Authority v Robinson [1999] EWCA Civ 3039; [2000] QB 775; [2000] 2 All ER 727; [2000] 1 WLR 1590

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