ABSTRACT
Accrual of cause of action to successive owners in respect of latent damage to property
3. Accrual of cause of action to successive owners in respect of latent damage to property
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, where-(a) a cause of action (“the original cause of action”) has accrued to any
person in respect of any negligence to which damage to any property in which he has an interest is attributable (in whole or in part); and
(b) another person acquires an interest in that property after the date on which the original cause of action accrued but before the material facts about the damage have become known to any person who, at the time when he first has knowledge of those facts, has any interest in the property,
a fresh cause of action in respect of that negligence shall accrue to that other person on the date on which he acquires his interest in the property.
