The Crown as squatter

By NL on 20/02/2008. 0 Comments

A more than a little unusual Court of Appeal judgment on adverse possession has just been handed down. Roberts v Crown Estate Commissioners [2008] EWCA Civ 98. I won’t go into the details – it involved a challenge to Crown possession of an area of foreshore and river bed of the Severn by the purchaser of an ancient manorial title. The result – the Crown can gain property by adverse possession. ‘The same law of limitation applies to both Crown and citizen’.

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  • advocatus diaboli
    21/02/2008 at 9:56 am

    I haven’t read the case (yet!) so this may well be off the mark, but I thought all foreshore was owned by the crown unless there has been a grant or sale of a stretch of it to someone else (usually a local authority, National Trust, etc). Will go and read the case now I think – very interesting….. AD :-)

    PS Now that I can get back on your blog there’ll be no stopping me!

  • contact
    21/02/2008 at 7:54 pm

    Hence the ‘ancient manorial’ ownership based challenge, apparently and unsurprisingly based on Welsh law/lore.

    Even the NT doesn’t get to own the area of shore exposed between high tide line and low tide line, AFAIR.

    Can you get onto the blog from home now? My cup overfloweth.

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