The right to light is a powerful weapon. A would-be developer of land can be brought to his knees if the claimant shows that the development will leave him with insufficient light.
The danger for the developer is increased by the relative ease with which an easement of light can be acquired, by the difficulty of discovering the existence of the easement and by the considerable uncertainty of predicting whether a proposed building development will cause an actionable interference with it.
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