West Bank Estates Ltd v Arthur

Subject Matter

PRESCRIPTION — 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 Rev, vol IV, c 184, s 3

[1967] 1 AC 665; [1966] 3 WLR 750