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    Proprietary estoppel is a legal claim, especially connected to English land law, which may arise in relation to rights to use the property of the owner...
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    Estoppel is a judicial device in common law legal systems whereby a court may prevent or "estop" a person from making assertions or from going back on...
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    acceptance." Under English law, estoppel by, promissory estoppel and proprietary estoppel are regarded as 'reliance-based estoppels' by Halsbury's Laws of England...
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    registered to be effective. Third, people can acquire land through proprietary estoppel. If someone is given an assurance that they will receive property...
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    Commission believed that the equitable doctrines of promissory estoppel and proprietary estoppel would still be available to provide relief, the House of Lords...
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  • Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18 is an English land law case, concerning proprietary estoppel. On Peter Thorner's Steart Farm, Cheddar, Somerset, David Thorner...
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    saying estoppel must be a shield not a sword, and calling instead for Parliamentary intervention. On the other hand, in the case of land, proprietary estoppel...
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  • UKHL 55 is a House of Lords case in English land law and relates to proprietary estoppel in the multi-property developer context. The court of final appeal...
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    English land law on proprietary estoppel. Due to a common mistake and no element of enticement to believe that mistake, estoppel was not available on...
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  • Re Basham [1986] 1 WLR applied a comparable test in relation to proprietary estoppel. He held that the belief, for detrimental reliance, need not relate...
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    Gillett v Holt [2000] is an English land law case concerning proprietary estoppel and a farming businesses' dispute. The case focussed on a farmer of a...
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    Justice rejected the notion that this assertion could give rise to proprietary estoppel in favour of Lissimore. In December 2013, it was announced that Downing...
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    Rice (EWCA Civ 159; 2002) is an English land law case concerning proprietary estoppel. Mr Jennings, a gardener and bricklayer, sued the administrators...
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    by proprietary estoppel, i.e. whether the provision in subsection 5 on resulting, implied or constructive trusts covers also proprietary estoppel. Yaxley...
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    pre-action discovery Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27, on remedies to proprietary estoppel and protecting expectations "Lady Hale appointed next President of...
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    Cooke [1980] 3 All ER 710 is an English land law case concerning proprietary estoppel. Kenneth and Hedley Greasley owned a house on 32 George Street, Riddings...
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    Crabb v Arun DC (category English estoppel case law)
    Civ 7 is a leading English land law and contract case concerning "proprietary estoppel". Lord Denning MR affirmed that where agreements concern the acquisition...
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    A proprietary company, the characteristic of which is abbreviated as "Pty", is a form of privately held company in Australia, Namibia and South Africa...
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    v Turner [1979] 1 WLR 431 is an English land law case, a case of proprietary estoppel. The husband, was a fairly successful man of commerce and at all...
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    law Unconscionability in English law English land law Estoppel in English law Proprietary estoppel Possession is nine-tenths of the law Declaratory relief...
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    constructive trusts; fiduciary law; equitable estoppel (including promissory and proprietary estoppel); relief against penalties and relief against forfeiture;...
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    assurance concerns rights over property, a variant "proprietary estoppel" does allow a claimant to plead estoppel as a cause of action. So in Crabb v Arun District...
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  • Willmott v Barber (category English estoppel case law)
    often cited for its holding regarding the doctrine of estoppel by acquiescence or proprietary estoppel. The plaintiff, Willmott, was suing two defendants...
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    Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd (category English estoppel case law)
    to contract law. It reaffirmed and extended the doctrine of promissory estoppel in the contract law of England and Wales. However, the most significant...
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  • Fashions v Liverpool Victoria Trustees (1979), a leading case on proprietary estoppel Anon, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Centenary Celebration 1843-1943...
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    Additionally, unconscionability is a necessary element to the finding of proprietary estoppel. The leading case[citation needed] for unconscionability in the United...
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    De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel are both terms that are used by courts in most common law jurisdictions to describe circumstances in which...
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    Dillwyn v Llewelyn (category English estoppel case law)
    land, probate and contract law case which established an example of proprietary estoppel at the testator's wish overturning his last Will and Testament; the...
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    the agreement in order to give rise to a constructive trust or a proprietary estoppel. In sharp contrast with this situation is the very different one...
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  • (4th edn. 2018) Land Law:Core Texts (2nd. edn. 2020) The Law of Proprietary Estoppel (2nd. edn. 2020) "Ben McFarlane, Oxford Law Faculty". 16 October...
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