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Steel v Houghton (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32

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Steel v Houghton (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32


Rule of thumb: Can a third party interfere with another person's property? Any interference with property by a third party must be justifiable or else it is a breach of the law. .

Court held:The Court in this case affirmed that the seminal starting principle is that all people have the right to absolute enjoyment of their private property, and that any encroachments into this then have to be shown to be fair and reasonable..

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Ratio-decidendi:

"... inconsistent with the nature of property which imports absolute enjoyment’, Lord Loughborough

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