Westropp v Congested Districts Board

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 24 February 1919
• Date: 24 February 1919
• Court: House of Lords (Ireland)

Hamilton v. Ramadge.

WESTROPP

and

CONGESTED DISTRICTS BOARD

H. L.

Profit a prendre - Turbary - Reservation - Perpetuity - Vesting Order - Superior interest.

There cannot be a grant of a profit a prendre without a capable grantee. A series of residents in a house are not capable grantees.

Appal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal (1).

The House of Lord (Lord Birkenhead C. and Lords Atkinson, Shaw of Dunfermline, and Wrenbury) affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal with costs.

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