Claim what is rightfully yours

You decrease your power by blaming others or external forces for your misfortunes. Why give up what is rightfully yours? Claim your personal power today! Try not to blame outside forces for disappointments. Stand strong and refuse to be a victim. You can do it! Proprietary estoppel is a legal principle which prevents a person from claiming his legal rights when it would be unjust for him to do so in light of his conduct and dealings. This principle would be applicable where, for example, a landowner makes a promise to transfer his interest in land to another and then encourages that person to build a house on the land.

The landowner then fails to fulfill his promise of transferring his interest in the land. In these circumstances, the court can bar the landowner from claiming his right to the land and order him to transfer his interest in the land to the promisee. The doctrine, therefore, provides for the informal creation of interests in land.

There are three essential elements which must be proved before one can successfully make a claim based on the doctrine of proprietary estoppel. Firstly, there must be an encouragement or assurance or conduct on the part of the landowner which causes the person expending the money to reasonably believe that he has or will have a title or some interest in the land. The person relying on the claim must show that either by language, silence or inaction he was led to believe that he would acquire an interest in the land.

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