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Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
You must decide which type of joint ownership you want if you buy, inherit…
You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…
This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…
You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…
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Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a historic event.
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
How to register historic rights of common and make changes to existing rights during the transitional period.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.
Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications.
How to register new rights and make changes to existing rights of common.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
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