The doctrine of benefit and burden: reforming the law of covenants and the numerus clausus “problem”

The doctrine of benefit and burden - an indirect method for enforcing the burden of positive freehold covenants – developed as an exception the strict Austerberry rule that the burden of positive covenants cannot bind successors directly at law. Three recent Court of Appeal cases (Davies v Jones; Wi...

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Main Author: Bevan, Chris
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49043/