Lasey J. A Case Summary

Licence have no time certainty making possession perpetual as indicated in mensah v blow , the licensee and his successors were in possession for fifty years. However, it was held that over time a licensee did not become an absolute owner of rights of user over unoccupied parts of the land. In this same case, Lassey J. A was of the view that “ … the respondent as a licensee at custom has as much protection to be on the land and use the portions of it she is permitted to use, but she enjoys no more protection than the permission granted to her allows…”.