Supreme Court allows transferring a watercourse by purchase and sale instead of area exchange under Land Act.

The Supreme Court of Finland allowed the transfer of a watercourse from Area A to Area B via a purchase and sale transaction under Section 243 of the Land Act. The applicant argued that a simple area exchange was insufficient to properly resolve the watercourse's location, while the opposing party contended that the statutory method was strictly limited to exchanges. The court decided that the legislative intent permitted the purchase and sale method as a suitable alternative to correct the watercourse's position when an area exchange was not feasible.