Licensing the use of land

Licensing or regulating the use of land, or activity carried out on land, can help avoid the grant of greater, longer-lasting, potentially permanent rights in the land – including ownership rights acquired by adverse possession, prescriptive legal easements, dedication of a road as a highway dedication, recreational rights in the form of a registered town and village green, or simply leasehold estates with security of tenure. This is the matter under consideration in next Monday’s webinar “Licensing the use of land to avoid the grant of greater rights”