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[Lawcruncher]

A fee farm rent is another name for a rentcharge. Despite the word "rent" appearing no tenancy is involved. The rent is also charged on other land. The intention back in 1935 was that the seller would continue to pay the whole of the charge.

What you need to do is enquire if the...

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All the above is a bit different. A friend had some furniture taken and the police declined to do anything on the basis that whilst the items in the former tenant's possession answered the description of items missing from her flat they could not prove they were the same. Whilst taking the point, when...

[Lawcruncher]

If you really really want to ensure that the lease is contracted out, employ a conveyancer.

When letting any commercial property employing a lawyer has to be recommended as there many traps for the unwary.

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It is getting on for 50 years since I studied criminal law, but I know it does not work quite like that. If it did no one could be found guilty unless they confessed as it is, as you say, quite impossible to prove a person's state of mind. The law is set out in section 8 of the Criminal Justice Act...

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For the future, a good idea is to take a note of the serial numbers of all goods which have them and for other items to "postcode" them if practical. Then if the tenant leaves taking any such items with them the police will not be able to argue that they will not investigate because you will...

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I think that is something that the conveyancer who acted on your purchase should explain....

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It should be remembered that the Consumer Rights Act 2015 only applies to individuals and not to companies.

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If your land is unregistered, when you sell part of land comprised in a conveyance you have to keep the conveyance or you will not be able show title to the land you retain. A "memorial" or " memorandum" of a conveyance or other document is a note endorsed on (or if there is no space...

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Sorry for the deal in replying, but your last post did not come to my attention when you made it.

The top plan shows the boundary of No 1 as shown at HM Land Registry?

The middle plan shows in red what No 1 occupies?

I am not clear why No 1 uses the land shown...

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The Foxtons case was under the UTCCR 1999 which defined "consumer" as: "any natural person who, in contracts covered by these Regulations, is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business or profession". the UTCCR 1999 has now been replaced by yje Consumer Rights Act...

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Have you exchanged contracts?...

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There may be an argument to that effect.

However, whatever the legal position, the point here is that the tenant had not moved in and the landlord went in to improve the condition of the property. No harm was done.

The problem with much in landlord and tenant relationships...

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My analysis of the legal position is set out in the first two posts of this thread.

At least one barrister (in a discussion or article to be found somewhere on this site) agrees with me that if a term of a tenancy provides that a landlord may enter for a specified (reasonable) purpose upon...

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Possibly. It may depend on who suggests it.

Whatever the position, it is going to be a sham if the non-residing tenant is a person unknown to the tenant and nominated by the landlord....

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The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that it will not be your adverse possession, but if a tenant takes up adverse possession of land adjoining that of his landlord he does so on behalf of the landlord.

You describe the land in question as "scrub land" which...

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You have not done anything legally wrong about which the tenant can complain. I also do not think you have done anything morally wrong. However, I think that tenant has a right to be miffed. He may feel his privacy has been invaded. Assuming both you and tenant have mobile phones you could have called...

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Change "there's a reasonable chance that" to "it can be virtually guaranteed that"....

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Section 11 LTA 1985 requires a landlord "to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances...

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Best to keep things simple and avoid creativity. If you think you have a cunning plan run it past a Chancery Q.C. and a professor of cunning at Oxford University (as Blackadder would have said)....

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If you make a stooge a co-tenant he is not going to be random.

You would have to persuade the "true" tenant to accept an unknown person as co-tenant.

The stooge will want a cast iron guarantee that he incurs no liability.

If you successfully sue the "true"...