EV-0066 — WA240304 file item 10: register / first-registration application, 23 February 1983

INFERENCE · W-03The farmhouse title was applied for on 23 Feb 1983, while she was alive and in occupation, and examined after her death (26 Mar 1983 in family records; "March 1983" in the judgment). HM Land Registry's 30 Jul 2026 schedule lists a D23 "inside exam" form with a Linklaters letter of 8 Apr 1983, correspondence of 12 Apr 1983, and Linklaters/Registry letters of 12 May 1983. The register edition carries the application date, 23 Feb 1983 (record). Working hypothesis: whatever the Registry asked about occupation was answered after the occupier had died, while the finished title speaks from a date when she was alive. The content of the three letters is not yet read.

Rests on: EV-0063 · EV-0066 (this page) · EV-0069 · EV-0070 · EV-0071 · EV-0161 · research log E133

Would be confirmed by: The 8 Apr, 12 Apr and 12 May 1983 letters (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026). If they described the house as vacant, or omitted her son in occupation, this reading is strengthened.

Would be refuted by: The same letters disclosing the occupation and BP's unresolved 1974 action to the Registry.

Status: Open; decisive input due 28 Oct 2026

DISCARDED THEORY · W-08DISCARDED: the theory that the 23 Feb 1983 registration opened a short legal window to challenge it, which closed with her death. Reason: no such window existed in law — LRA 1925 s.70(1)(f) and (g) protected rights being acquired by possession and every person in actual occupation, and s.82 allowed rectification with no time limit.

Rests on: EV-0060 · research log E49

Would be confirmed by: Would be revived only by a Registry notice setting a time limit that was relied on.

Would be refuted by: Refuted by the statute text.

Status: Discarded

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 (this page) · EV-0044 · EV-0023

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-02Ground R3: the farmhouse was registered separately (WA240304, Form 1C by Linklaters & Paines, edition 23 Feb 1983) while BP's own 1974 action "has never been finally heard"; the court was told the whole farm had been registered in November 1982. Working hypothesis: the farmhouse application, made with eight-plus years of admitted adverse possession behind her, is the point where the occupation and the unresolved action would have had to be declared.

Rests on: EV-0063 · EV-0065 · EV-0066 (this page) · EV-0080 · EV-0078 · ground R3; research log E91, E98

Would be confirmed by: A Form 1C (Co.) statutory declaration silent about her occupation or claim (subject access request item 11).

Would be refuted by: A declaration that disclosed both. Cuts against: the court's words match the register as merged on 2 Feb 1987, and paper title was never in issue.

Status: Open (ground R3, scores a2 b1 c3 d2)

INFERENCE · R-03The 2 Feb 1987 amalgamation of WA240304 into WA231076 sets a dilemma on the 1983 class of title: either absolute in Feb 1983 (a London Gazette advertisement was required by the rules as printed, and none has been found), or possessory and later converted. Working hypothesis: the class of title in 1983 is a test of how the application was handled. Not yet confirmed for 1987 practice.

Rests on: EV-0078 · EV-0066 (this page) · EV-0231 · research log E114, E116, E118, E120, E125

Would be confirmed by: Subject access request item 10 (the 1983 register edition) showing the class of title.

Would be refuted by: Evidence that the Registry had stopped Gazette advertisement for all land after about May 1975 (the absence found is practice-wide, E116).

Status: Open; turns on item 10 (due 28 Oct 2026)