Crow v Wood [1971] 1 QB 77
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Question was whether the right to have one’s neighbour maintain their fence to keep in livestock was a valid easement.
CA said it could.
Lord Denning MR
It has long been the courts’ practice to recognise a right to require the owner of adjoining land to keep the boundary fence in repair, even though it requires the spending of money by one party.
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