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Civil way: 30 May 2025

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30 May 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8118 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR , Property , Artificial intelligence
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Chats on the boundary; owning up to AI in court; joint divorce popular: official; who needs a seal?!

THE BOTHER OF BOUNDARIES

You may not be disposed to raise as a conveyancing preliminary enquiry ‘is the property haunted?’, although I would advocate it. Pedants might more usefully now throw in as a supplement to standard questions: ‘Has the seller or any predecessor in title been a party to an oral or written boundary demarcation agreement as referred to in White v Alder [2025] EWCA Civ 392 and, if so, provide full details?’ This is an agreement the purpose of which is to define a previously unclear or uncertain boundary, even if it includes the conscious or unconscious

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