Victor and Others v West Bank Estates Ltd

JurisdictionCaribbean States
Judgment Date1961
Date1961
CourtFederal Supreme Court (West Indies)
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4 cases
  • Robert Gormandy v Trinidad and Tobago Housing Development Corporation
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • July 20, 2020
    ...would be described as comprising 4.6 acres. 4 “The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk” by William Cowper. See also Marnan J in Victor And Others v West Bank Estates Ltd (1961) 3 WIR 208 5 “I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am......
  • Maharaj v Almorales (a/c Almarales)
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • July 29, 2013
    ...who has “dispossessed” anotherin the sense just stated as being in “adverse possession” for the purpose of the Act.” 36 (36) In Victor v. West Bank Estates Ltd. (1961) 3 W.I.R. 208, FSC Marnan, J. who delivered the main judgment said at p. 215 B-C: “No doubt it is good law that a mere tresp......
  • Dular v Stanton et Al
    • Guyana
    • High Court (Guyana)
    • September 26, 1979
    ...her predecessors in title did was to fence some lands and graze cattle and he made reference to that ‘locus classicus’ of Victor and Others v. West Bank Estates Ltd. (1960) L.R.B.G. 51 on appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of the West Indies (1961) 3 W.I.R. 208 and in further appeal to th......
  • Ramlakhan v Farouk
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • May 20, 1974
    ...then the possession cannot be consensual. As Marnan, J. put it in the Federal Supreme Court Victor et al v. West Bank Estates, Ltd., [1961] 3 W. I. R. 208, at p. 218: “It is to be noted that the purpose referred to is the passing of possession only. Possession taken under an agreement made......

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