Buyer beware!

Posted by on Sep 17, 2012 in Nelsons' Column | 0 comments Seth Godin has an interesting take on a well worn legal tag “buyer beware” – see here While I accept Godin’s analysis and recommendation for all businesses – and will strive to implement it throughout my own business – “buyer beware” is still a fundamental tenet of English law: If you buy a house, the seller has no obligation to disclose any...
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Japanese Knotweed

Posted by on Sep 9, 2012 in Nelsons' Column | 2 comments I’m not sure why, but most surveyors’ reports these days refer to the problem of Japanese Knotweed. I’m not suggesting it is not a problem – far from it – see this article for why: Japanese Knotweed-2012-06 My bafflement is as to why now, when it has been around (and a problem) for so long. Whatever the reason, it is being mentioned in survey reports more often...
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Commercial leases

Posted by on Sep 2, 2012 in Nelsons' Column | 1 comment Commercial leases are very different from residential ones, and especially different from short tenancies, such as assured shorthold tenancies.  In essence, there is no real statutory protection for the tenant – the tenant’s rights depend on the contents of the lease, not (on the whole) on any background law. This is particularly so regarding repairing obligations: the landlord takes...
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Completion deadline

Posted by on Aug 26, 2012 in Nelsons' Column | 0 comments Under the Standard Conditions of Sale (Fifth Edition, as for all previous editions), if the completion money is received by the seller’s conveyancer after 2.00pm, the buyer is liable to pay interest covering the period until the next working day.  This does not stop completion taking place after 2.00pm, but it does mean that the buyer has to pay interest.  As a shorthand, however, I refer...
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A ramble round the follies

Posted by on Aug 4, 2012 in Abaddons Musings | 0 comments This post is nothing to do with the law – if that is what you are looking for, try another post, please. This is instead about a planned walk (approximately 4.5 miles – 7 kilometres – mainly along footpaths and C roads, but also using a bridle path and a stretch of a B road)  in Brightling, East Sussex, to view the various follies, etc, of Mad Jack Fuller – and to have a...
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Public houses and public highways – what is the connection?

Posted by on Aug 3, 2012 in Nelsons' Column | 0 comments I have received a strange enquiry today, asking for “chapter and verse” for saying that – in the 18th and 19th centuries, a public house (as opposed to an inn, tavern, hotel or club) had to front onto a public highway. The reason the enquiry is relevant is that a community project acquired a site that included a burnt down public house. The project sold off the public house...
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