Leigh v Taylor
1902 · AC 157
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- Facts
- Valuable tapestries were stretched on canvas and fixed to wooden battens, which were nailed to the walls of a house. The life tenant died. The question was whether the tapestries passed with the house or with her personal estate.
- Issue
- Were the tapestries ?
- Held
- No. The House of Lords held they remained .
- Principle
- Fixing that does no more than is necessary to display a chattel does not make it part of the land.
- Why it matters
- It is the purpose-of-annexation case students set beside Holland v Hodgson.
Words and Latin in this note
- Fixture
- A chattel that has become part of the land, because of how firmly it is fixed and why. It passes with the land unless the contract says otherwise. Open the note.
- Chattel
- A moveable thing. If it is not annexed to the land so as to become a fixture, it does not pass with the land. Open the note.
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