LICENCES Flashcards

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LICENCE

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  • personal right which is non-binding on future owners and can be ended with reasonable notice
  • gray and gray: a device which performs many functions
  • versatile and flexible interest in the land
  • Thomas v sorrell (makes something lawful which would be unlawful)
  • is a liberty to make use of another’s land that liberty is not a part of a proprietary right

Eg going to the cinema, postman delivery a letter

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BARE LICENCE

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  • permission to enter the land and carry out some activity
  • voluntarily given by owner who receives nothing for it
  • giving a licence is gratuitous (no consideration)
  • no contract just permission
  • no particular form needed
  • can be verbal or implied
  • only lasts as long as licensor wishes
  • can be terminated through reasonable notice (robson v hallet) for reasonable test look at facts of case
  • licensee has no claim in damages
  • bare licence is not an interest in land
  • incapable of binding
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CONTRACTUAL LICENCE

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  • only differ to bare licences due to consideration
  • there will be a contract
  • governed by contract law
  • no particular formality (verbal implied written)
  • not contracts for the disposition of an interest in land
  • do not have to meet requirements of s.2 LPA
  • not required to be in writing or signed
  • Tanner v Tanner implied contractual license which mr Tanner breached
  • horrocks v foray no contract was found to exist on similar facts no consideration given
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