XXIV Old Buildings

This Q&A discusses which remedies are available where someone who has the right to occupy a property and is responsible for its maintenance, etc is wilfully causing damage to it.

This Q&A considers alternative ways of amending a restriction on a freehold title without needing to enter into a deed of variation.

This Q&A considers the remedies available to an executor where beneficiaries have been overpaid due to a miscalculation and where monies are now required to settle a liability.

This Q&A considers the considerations for a buyer and a mortgagee of a site where the water supply is owned by the estate of which the property once formed a part and where there are no mains supply within several kilometres.

This Q&A considers an option agreement conditional upon planning permission.

This Q&A considers what a personal representative can do on behalf of a deceased member of a company limited by guarantee.

This Q&A considers what are reasonable modifications under LRHUDA 1993, s 57 with respect to the granting of a new lease.

This Q&A considers what cash means in the context of probates.

This Q&A considers the legal position where a commercial tenant abandons the property.

This Q&A considers the duties of beneficiaries and executors to pay off the deceased’s debts.

This Q&A considers the position regarding the demise of a building on renewal of a lease of bare land where the tenant subsequently erected a building at its own cost with the landlord’s consent despite this not being documented.

This Q&A considers position of covenants in a lease by a leaseholder to a management company that has been dissolved.

This Q&A explores a transfer of part after a property has been converted into five separate and independent houses.

This Q&A considers situations where the merger of leasehold and freehold estates is likely to occur as well as the potential consequences of their merger or non-merger.

This Q&A looks at the options available for the administration of an estate and order of sale.

This Q&A looks at what a UK personal representative can do to prevent a deceased’s foreign assets being collected in by a foreign PR where one PR is resident in the UK and one is resident abroad in the context of a case study.

This Q&A looks at the rights a does a local authority has to grant an easement for vehicular access over a village green to a developer and considers what procedure does the local authority have to follow.

This Q&A considers the possibility of implied terms in contracts for the sale of land, as well as statutorily implied covenants for title in contacts for the sale of land under LP(MP)A 1994.

This Q&A discusses the procedure to give the notice of the intended application for probate to the Court of Protection when applying for a grant as the attorneys under a registered enduring power of attorney for a beneficiary under an intestacy.

This Q&A considers what special considerations there are when granting a headlease of premises, the terms of which permit underletting for use as allotment gardens.