Cases - Sinclair-Lockhart's Trustees v Central Land Board

Record details

Name

Sinclair-Lockhart's Trustees v Central Land Board

Date

(1950)

Citation

1 P&CR 195

Keywords

Planning control

Summary

In this case, Lord Mackintosh examined the meaning of 'curtilage' with reference to a decision of the House of Lords in Caledonian Railway v Turcan (1898). He said:

'This rather illuminating decision seems to show that ground which is used for the comfortable enjoyment of a house or other building may be regarded in law as being within the curtilage of that house or building and thereby as an integral part of the same, although it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way. It is enough that it serves the purposes of the house or building in some necessary or reasonably useful way.'