Supreme Court of United Kingdom: <\/b>In an appeal concerning the issue as to whether ‘a field’ should be registered as a town or village green under Section 15 of the Commons Act 2006, which allows an application to register land as a town or village green where a significant number of inhabitants of the locality have \u201cindulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land\u201d for at least 20 years, a 5 judge bench held that the public\u2019s use for more than 20 years of land maintained by the local authority with that authority\u2019s knowledge was not \u201cas of right\u201d as the members of the public have a statutory right to use the land for recreational purposes. “.According interpretation to the term \u2018as of right\u2019 under Section 15 of the Act, the Court held that if a person uses privately owned land \u201cof right\u201d or \u201cby right\u201d, the use is rightful because it has been permitted by the landowner. However, if the use of such land is \u201cas of right\u201d means that the use is without the permission of the landowner. Accordingly, it was held that such use is not \u201cof right\u201d or \u201cby right\u201d, but is carried on as if it were by right, hence \u201cas of right\u201d. R v North Yorkshire County Council ,2014 UKSC 31 , <\/i>decided on May 21, 2014<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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