KINGS COLLEGE LONDON SCHOOL OF LAW LAW OF PROPERTY LECTURE 2: INTRODUCTION 1 PROPERTY AND NON-PROPERTY: LICENCES V LAND 1.

Gradations of property:

2. Property v contract:

3. Numerus clausus or closed list of rights:

4. How do we know when a right is proprietary? a. Compare these examples: i. Natl Provincial Bank v Ainsworth [1965] AC 1175 (HL):

ii.

Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd. v Boland [1981] A.C. 487 (HL):

iii.

What is the difference?

iv.

What makes the right proprietary?

5. Permission v rights: Thomas v Sorrell (1673) Vaugh 330, Vaughan CJ at 351:

A licence [permission] properly passeth no interest nor alters or transfers property in any thing

6. What is not property in land: Licences: a. Permission to use anothers land i. Bare licence

ii.

Contractual licence: Verral v Gt. Yarmouth BC [1981] QB 202

where award of specific performance under the ordinary rules of contract law gave use of premises).

Issue: Can contractual licences per se ever bind C in Property Law? i. The orthodox view: Clore v Theatrical Properties Ltd [1936] 3 All ER 483 (CA):

See also Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd [1997] AC 655 (HL):

ii. The heterodox view: Errington v Errington and Woods [1952 1 KB 290 (CA):

iii. The return to orthodoxy: Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1989] Ch 1 (CA):

iii.

Licence coupled with a grant of an interest

7. Issues still unresolved: Consider these examples: a. A gives a licence to B to occupy land. Before B goes into possession, C enters the land. Can B evict C? b. A owns land and gives B a licence to occupy it. B goes in to possession of that land. C then enters without As permission. Can B evict C?
i.

Whats the difference?

Manchester Airport v Dutton [2000] QB 133 (CA):