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Restrictive covenant
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
A covenant (an agreement by deed) that prohibits the convenantee from doing something. Whether a covenant is
restrictive or not is a question of form, not of substance (TulkVMoxhay1848), and is often assessed by determining
whether it requires expenditure on the part of the covenantee. A restrictive covenant is always enforceable between
the original parties, under straightforward common-law principles. The more interesting question is
whether a restrictive covenant can be made to `run with the land', that is, bind purchasers of the
land who are not parties to the original covenant. See covenant for more details.
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