Nasrullah v Rashid

Subject Matter

LIMITATION OF ACTION — Land, recovery of — Possessory title — Registered proprietor deprived of title by forged transfer — New registered proprietor complicit in fraud and occupying property — Original proprietor applying to rectify register 24 years later — Whether new registered proprietor having adverse possession claim — Whether registered proprietor precluded from relying on own fraud — Whether exceptional circumstances justifying not altering register — Land Registration Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 21), ss 20(4), 69, 75 — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), Sch 4, paras 2, 3(3), Sch 12, para 18 — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58) (as amended by Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (c 47), s 25(2), Sch 4), ss 15, 18, Sch 1, para 1

[2018] EWCA Civ 2685; [2020] Ch 37; [2019] 2 WLR 1310; [2019] 4 All ER 424; [2018] WLR (D) 731, CA

Commentary

Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
Land - Accrual in claims for the recovery of land 10.41