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Leigh v Jack

(1879) 5 Ex D 264 (CA)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales)
Year1879
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Acts of user on land that do not interfere with and are consistent with the purpose to which the paper owner intends to devote it do not amount to dispossession or discontinuance of possession (the 'implied licence'/special-purpose rule).

Area of Law

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Related Cases

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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