In this week’s article I am going to briefly discuss a topical issue of the ownership of trees or if your neighbour owns trees and how it can affect you. Overhanging braches and encroaching roots. Under our Common Law system (that we inherited from our neighbours in England) a person […]
Tag: property
Registering Your Septic Tank: What is Involved?
In previous articles in this series, we have focused on the provisions of the Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2012, which was enacted in January of this year. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that waste water from septic tanks and other individual waste water treatment systems are disposed […]
Selling Property
As Seller or Vendor you will first have to decide on how you wish to market your property. You may decide to engage an auctioneer or you may decide to advertise yourself through the local or national press or on-line. Almost everybody employs an auctioneer. Self-sales are very uncommon in […]
New Septic Tank Charges
In a recent article in this series we focused on the provisions of the Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011. As you will recall the Bill was published on the 3rd November 2011 and set out the changes proposed to be introduced with regard to the registration of in particular, septic […]
How far can you go to Defend your Home?
It has long been said that “a man’s home is his Castle” implying that he may be justified in the use of force within his own home to protect himself, his family or his property. Our constitution, the bedrock of our legal system, recognises the special constitutional status of a […]
Mortgage Arrears – Any Solutions?
We are currently in an era where it would appear that report after report is being generated to deal with the myriad of problems we are encountering both at an economic and social level in this country. The most recent of these reports is the Inter Departmental Mortgage Arrears Working […]
Neighbours and Boundary Issues
The writer, GK Chesterton, said “your next door neighbour is not a man; he is an environment; he is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that […]
Property Question & Answer
Question: I have been living at my current address for the past 20 years. The property consists of a dwelling house on approximately a half acre of ground. The house was left to me by my father in his Will who died 20 years ago. My father had lived in […]
The Important Distinction between a Mortgage and a Judgment Mortgage
Invariably in the course of our work, a question will arise as to the distinction between a Mortgage and a Judgment Mortgage. Most of us in the course of our lives will take out a Mortgage of some value in order to purchase a residence. This will involve the consent […]
New Act may extinguish existing Rights of Way?
The introduction of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 might have passed most people by without them noticing. The new law is a long overdue overhaul and consolidation of much of the previous existing legislation. While I’m not suggesting that everyone need to go out and buy a […]
