In any situation where a tenant of one part of a multi-let property buys in its landlord’s interest, careful attention must be paid to the nuts and bolts of appurtenant rights such as easements. This has always been so, but a new case increases the potential for headaches (and incidentally throws doubt on the accuracy of many registered titles). Such situations are perhaps most likely to arise in the residential context, but may also crop up in the course of corporate restructuring of property holdings, where the primary concern is of course the financial imperative, and such details may be lost.
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