Illegal Easements Never Legalised By Prescription
Housden and another v the Conservators of Wimbledon and Putney Commons
Ch D Weekly Law Notes Summary
17 May 2007
Where the capacity or power of the servient owner derived from a statute which rendered it unlawful for him to grant a particular easement no such right could be acquired by prescription under s 2 of the Prescription Act 1832.