Casting light on rights

Gregson, Angela

Casting light on rights - 2019 - RICS Property Journal October-November 2019, 42-43 (2) .

First in a series of articles on the right to light. Provides definition of a right to light as an easement enjoyed by one landowner over the land of someone else. Explains how such a right can be granted by the Prescription Act 1832 , Section 3 under the 20 year rule, by the doctrine of lost modern grant and by common law.


Easements
Rights of Light Act 1959


United Kingdom 1973