What is a house? Rather like the well-known elephant test, this point consistently comes before the higher courts – and many other great thinkers – and, in Day v Hosebay Ltd; Howard De Walden Estates Ltd v Lexgorge Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 748, the Court of Appeal had another go.
The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 entitles leaseholders of a house to enfranchise their building. As originally enacted, there was a residence requirement but the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 did away with this, replacing it with a requirement that the lease has been owned by the tenant for at least two years.
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