The Weekly Law Reports
[1966] 3 WLR 750
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
WEST BANK ESTATES LTD. APPELLANTS AND SHAKESPEARE CORNELIUS ARTHUR AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS
ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT OF THE WEST INDIES
1966 May 19,
23,
24,
25;
July 11
July 11
LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST, LORD HODSON and LORD WILBERFORCE.
Guyana
— Land
— Prescription
— Land lying between lands of legal owner and claimant
— Acts of cultivation
— Whether sufficient to prove sole possession
— Whether consistent with enjoyment by true owner
— “Sole and undisturbed possession, user or enjoyment”
— Whether related to physical characteristics of land
— Presence of dam
— Whether evidence of boundary
—
Laws of British Guiana, 1953, revision vol. IV, c. 184, s. 3.