Conveyancing: Overage, restrictive covenants

Laurence Target considers the devices used to ensure that a seller benefits from any future increases in the value of its land ‘Using modern approaches, we could say that to be enforceable a covenant must preserve the value or protect the amenity of the land it purports to benefit.’ A seller of land may want …
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Conveyancing: A major change in the court’s approach

Christopher Cant considers a decision providing guidance on the construction of documents registered at HM Land Registry The majority considered that the insertion of a whole clause mistakenly omitted required a rectification order and could not be dealt with as a matter of construction.The recent Court of Appeal decision in Cherry Tree Investments Ltd v …
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