Steel v Houghton
1788 English legal decision supporting property rights / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Steel v Houghton (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32,[1] also known as the Great Gleaning Case, is a landmark judgment in English law by the House of Lords that is considered to mark the modern legal understanding of private property rights. Ostensibly the matter found that no person has a right at common law to glean the harvest of a private field, but the judgment has been taken to be a more general precedent for private land matters.
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Steel v Houghton (1788) | |
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Court | House of Lords |
Decided | 1788 (1788) |
Citation | (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32. |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Lord Loughborough |
Keywords | |
gleaning property law |
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