we have lived in our house for over 20 years, my wife bought the house before we were married land registration was not compulsory, so it was never done. The previous owner retained part of the land for future redevelopment. two years ago the son of the previous owner, now deceased registered the retained land and sold it to a developer, we have since had a dispute with the developer which led us to look at our deeds, only to find that they showed that the previous owner had actually sold my wife 120 feet more of the garden than I thought. so according to the deeds, the developer has built houses on what was our property. The land registry say that the son had produced no deeds ( obviously because they would have reflected ours ) but they allowed him to have absolute title on the basis of a sworn statement that the boundary was where he wanted it to be and so far they refuse to admit a mistake. Their argument seems to be that because we did not know that we owned the land then we didnt
2007-07-23
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