Chapter 7 Self-test questions

Licenses
. Which one of the following scenarios does not describe a situation in which we might expect a licence to arise?

. What sets licences apart from other interests such as leases and easements is that they are personal in nature. True or false?

. What is the significance of licences being personal as opposed to proprietary in nature? Select one of the following.

. It is possible on the same set of facts for a licence, a lease, or an easement to arise, meaning that we have to be very alert to what was intended by the parties in scrutinizing the scenario before us. True or false?

. In which case did Vaughan CJ famously provide the classic statement of the nature and effect of licences in the following terms: '[a licence] properly passeth no interest, nor alters or transfers property in anything, but only makes an action lawful, which without it had been unlawful'? Select one of the following.

. A bare licence is a licence conferred in a contract accompanied by the giving of consideration. True or false?

. What is the name given to a permission granted to enter another's land to remove something from that land? Select one of the following.

. In which one of the following cases did the court accept that an implied contractual licence had arisen?

. Which case is credited with a return to the orthodox position that a contractual licence is personal in nature and does not enjoy proprietary status as Lord Denning had asserted in earlier case law? Select one of the following.

. Under which statutory provision might a contractual licensee have a right enforceable against a third party who is not an original party to the licence? Select one of the following.

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