Shall I send you a copy of the contract, then you can put your mind at rest?Well yes.
somebody’s had a hard day or got out of the wrong side of the bed.
As none of us know what the laws are, but you keep saying they can be really difficult, I was just asking.
“I doubt he will mess me around” oh how many times I have heard that from a “gentleman’s agreement “
Even a somewhat legal 1 on paper.
J
This is no gentlemens' agreement it is a "pret a usage" a legal contract which means that neither party gets any monetary profit out of it, simply each of us are doing the other a favour, he is keeping my land in fine fettle and we are letting him keep his horse on it.
I was more annoyed at you thinking that I hadn't even considered how the horse was going to be fed, watered and sheltered.
And no, he won't be able to mess me around. The closest he could come to that would be to put his horse on the land and then give me notice of leaving. which would make no sense at all.
Or, put it on the land and refuse to leave after i have given him notice, in which case he would be in breach of contract and I could legally get a bailiff to throw him off.
These contracts are very common, nothing dodgy about them at all.
The law CAN be difficult if you go in with your eyes closed and let a farmer actually start farming your land. But that is a completely different thing.