Rights of way and stolen land

iamana1ias

cashorcheque wrote: »

I don't understand how to upload images from my PC! Sorry, I am being a dunce. I don't have a URL for them - they're in My Pictures .... I am being an idiot. If someone can tell me how to do it, I'll upload them.

You need to upload them to photobucket or tinypic and then you can post the url.

mostlycheerful

Just read your thread here so maybe by now you’ve worked out what you want to do and done it but in case this is still an issue it might be worth considering whether this is a case of what’s known as adverse possession, which I’ve decided might be worth mentioning to you as you and the other posters don’t appear to mention the term, which is that you can own property after 12 years (and crown property after 30 years) if you assert your ownership over it eg by stating it’s yours, registering it with the land registry, fencing it in etc and in the absence of a challenge then that’s it. I don’t know how challengeable it is if someone’s asserting it and, of course, English law is a mix of statute and precedent which change from time to time so nothing is necessarily immutable indefinitely. So it might be worth researching other cases of adverse possession to see how various judges and courts deal with it and whether there’s any discernible trend in decisions, perhaps there might be some judges and courts more in favour and others more against and there may be more claims supported these days than previously or the other way round, it may have fallen out of fashion. Hope this is of use.