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posessory title for half a garden?
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If one relies on a solicitor and something goes seriously wrong, there is a procedure for redress. The case you refer to isn't over yet.
Are you advocating that people do their own conveyancing?
If they are competent to do so, by all means! For the rest us, I certainly advocate reading and understanding every word on all correspondence pertaining to it, as ukangela has done. Better safe than sorry, imho and at least, if you can see the ssshh about to hit the fan, you can duck.0 -
Thanks to everyone who has replied. I have a friend to whom I mentioned our situation and she kindly sent me a link to the land registry page that was relevant. As my solicitor told me that it was impossible to change the title from possessory to absolute you can understand my reluctance to accept this statement in light of what I have read. Which has led me to this forum. I think the vendor genuinely believed that they had somehow bought the freehold to some of the garden. Whether they were mislead by their previous solicitor or they just didn't understand the process I cant say obviously. I was told that they asked to ' purchase' both parts of this land ( half is grassed, half is flagged ). The bottom end leads onto a back street so they were advised that this needed to be fenced off for a number of years before they would be able to apply for this part of the land. This was 8 years ago. If the time is has to be separated from the back street for is 12 years will we be able to apply in 4? or do we have to start again at 0?0
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I believe you can inherit the present owners squatters rights but you will need to tie up all the evidence they can give you about the land being fence for the past 8 years because in 4 years time they will be long gone.
[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I had the same situation a few years ago and the seller got their next door neighbour to sign a sworn statement that the garden I was buying had been fenced as it was for x years.[/FONT]0
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