EV-0023 — DBDT123/7 — 1939 agreement, Western Ground Rents to John Williams, with plan

THEORY · P-01Working hypothesis (the family's frame): three versions of Parcel A, the house parcel, which the family calls "synthetic", were created without the occupier as a party — A1, the Forest of Cardiff woodland title WA735527 (1994); A2, BP Properties' farmhouse title WA240304 (1983); A3, the village green VG41 registered by Glamorgan County Council (1970). Each turned land the family regarded as theirs into a registered or statutory parcel held by someone else.

Rests on: EV-0136 · EV-0166 · EV-0169 · EV-0065 · EV-0066 · EV-0044 · EV-0023 (this page)

Would be confirmed by: Side-by-side plans showing each parcel overlapping the house parcel on the 1939 tenancy plan, and application papers silent about the person in occupation (LRA 1925 s.70(1)(g)).

Would be refuted by: Plans showing no overlap with the house parcel.

Status: Open (family hypothesis)

THEORY · R-01Ground R5: the court's starting point — a Feb 1916 tenancy of "the whole of the farm" and BP's "paper title to the farm" — would fail for the farmhouse if the 1938 Bute → Western Ground Rents conveyance did not include it. The 1905 Bute conveyance and the 1924 drain agreement show Bute dealing with land here, so either the house came back to the main estate by a deed not yet seen, or the 1916 recital is loose.

Rests on: EV-0013 · EV-0014 · EV-0015 · EV-0019 · EV-0022 · EV-0023 (this page) · EV-0216 · EV-0045 · ground R5

Would be confirmed by: The 1938 conveyance plan showing the house parcel excluded.

Would be refuted by: The 1938 plan including it. Cuts against: paper title was not in issue in 1987 (E26), and the NLW 33-acre limeworks bundle (1876–1912) fits a letting that ended in 1912 rather than a sale (E43).

Status: Open (ground R5, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)