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Green v Ashco Horticulturist [1966] 2 All ER 233

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United Kingdom
By Oxbridge Law Team
Cross J

  • X granted Defendant a lease but reserved to himself he right to deal with all elements of the property as he saw fit.

  • Defendant often needed the back court and gate to receive deliveries for business but when X granted freehold to Plaintiff, Plaintiff denied Defendant any right to use the back court or gate, as Defendant had been doing for many years.

  • The court denied that Defendant had any easement arising from s.62.

  • Since the use of access had always been subject to the exigencies of Plaintiff/X’s business, there could not have been a grant of legal right.

Cross J

  • In considering whether the user was such that section 62 would operate, it was not right to look solely at the user at the moment of the grant of the existing lease, but the court ought to look at the facts over a reasonable period of time before the date of the grant in question. 

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