Alfred F Beckett Ltd v Lyons

Subject Matter

PRESUMPTION — Profit à prendre or easement — Presumed prescriptive ancient grant — Coast of Durham — Practice of taking and carrying away sea-washed coal — Evidence for whole of living memory — No evidence of assertion of claim as of right — Whether evidence justifying claim as of right from time immemorial or by toleration of Crown — Whether local practice capable of supporting presumption of right extending to all inhabitants of County Palatine — Whether claim based on custom maintainable in respect of sea-washed coal — Whether sea-washed coal profit à prendre incapable of forming subject-matter of custom

[1967] Ch 449; [1967] 2 WLR 421