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Apartments can never buy out the freehold. The freeholder is the person who owns the land. If you are in an apartment block with an apartment over or under your apartment , How could either of you own the ground under your apartment as it is the same piece of land. You will have to get your...

The right to light only applies where somebody blocks all your light to a point you are in darkness and cant enjoy the property. Ie somebody building right up against the window of a house at a boundary. You could not claim that your right to light was taken by somebody building next to your...

That makes sense. Because the person would have had a legal right to live in the property so therefore could not claim adverse possession over it at anytime in the future. The 12 years can only start when you have no legal right to the property in the first place.

I presume so

Thanks. It was a commercial building that used my driveway as a public fire exit route. But it was closed for 13 years to the public and actually had thier fire exits blocked up for security as the building was not being used. Would this be enough to show they abandoned the right? However they...

If a prescriptive easement is not registered and then not used for a 13 year period does the easment extinguish? My neighbour is a commercial building. I belive it may have previously had a claim for a prescribed easement over my property even tho it was not registered. However the building...