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Adjoining Owner

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Definition

Adjoining owner. An adjoining owner has a common law right to the support necessary to sustain his own land in its natural unincumbered state, Brown v. Robins (1859) 4 H. & N. 186; but only obtains a right to support for buildings by grant, express or implied, or by prescription (20 years); see Angus v. Dalton, (1881) 6 App. Cas. 740.

By the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), upon the sale of superfluous lands (s. 127) adjoining owners have a right of pre-emption (s. 128).

By the London Building Act, 1930 (21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), s. 5, the expression 'adjoining owner' means the owner or one of the owners, and 'adjoining occupier' means the occupier or one of the occupiers of land, buildings, storeys or rooms adjoining those of the building owner; see Crosby v. Alhambra Co., (1907) 1 Ch 295. See ACCESS; PARTY-WALLS.

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