Property Flashcards
Property Register
Property description
BENEFITS (easement) - found after the words ‘together with’ in a conveyance
Proprietorship Register
Ownership
Class of Title
Restrictions
Charges Register
BURDENS (covenants or easements)
Charges register - burdens (5)
- Mortgages / charges
- Covenants burdening property
- Easements
- Leases
- Notices
Hand in Pocket Test
Do we have to do something financially?
Yes = Positive Covenant
No = Restrictive Covenant
Restrictive Covenant
One landowner promises the other landowner not to carry out certain acts on their own land
The burden of restrictive covenants runs with the land, so binding on buyer following completion
Positive Covenants
A promise to do something or to spend money
The burden of positive covenants does not run with the land
Easement
Benefit or Burden
Covenant
Burden
Incumbrance (restriction)
Easements and covenants burdening the property
Ancillary rights
Easements benefitting the property
Mutually Enforceable
Building Schemes
Overriding Interests (4)
- Persons in actual occupation
- Local land charges
- Legal easement by prescription
- Legal leases of 7 years or less
Deeds after 31 July 1990
In writing
Intended to be deed
Signed in presence of witness who attests
Delivered
Deeds before 31 July 1990
Signed
Sealed
Delivered