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Cite as: [2019] UKFTT 165 (PC)
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Decision summary
REF/2018/0067
| Case reference | REF/2018/0067 |
|---|---|
| Date of decision | 05/02/2019 |
| Adjudicator | Acting Principal Judge Michael Michell |
| Applicant | Raj Properties Limited |
| Respondent | (1) Harjivan Saujani (2) Manjula Saujani |
| Main Category & Sub Category | |
| Category | Easements and profits a prendre |
| Sub Category | Construction of express grant |
| Secondary Category & Sub Category | |
| Category | Easements and profits a prendre |
| Sub Category | Construction of implied grant |
| Decision notes | [2019] UKFTT 165 (PC). Application to register the benefit of a right of way. The initial application claimed a prescriptive right of way, but in the Statement of Case and at the hearing, the Applicant claimed that the right of way was granted by a 1988 transfer. Held that there was no physical means of access from the allegedly dominant land to the allegedly servient land at the date of alleged grant and no such means of access was in existence in or before 2009. No right of way was granted by the use of the words “rights privileges easements and quasi-easement … now enjoyed by the property transferred against the adjoining property”. Also held that as a matter of construction no right of way arose from the use of the words “capable of being enjoyed by the adjoining property over the property hereby transferred”. Those words meant “capable of being enjoyed as at the date of the transfer”. If the words of the 1988 transfer were to be construed as intending to grant easements to arise at a future date (e.g. when there was a physical means of access between the two parcels of land), no right of way would have arisen because of the rule against perpetuities. The physical means of access between the two parcels within the period of 21 years from the date of the 1988 transfer. |
| Download decision(s) | [2019] UKFTT 165 (PC) |