Property Law Second Term Flashcards
What sections of the LT(C)A allow a tenant and landlord to be released from covenants?
S.5 (tenant) and s.6 and s.8 (landlord)
What section of LRA shows a legal charge for value is taken free of any interest not overriding or registered?
S.30 LRA
Wall v Collins
E is at least as long as the original lease if A obtains fee simple from leasehold
When is forfeiture available after leasehold covenant breach?
Supposedly available for all
Consumer Credit Act 1974 regulates what?
Some mortgages
In what case did the court make it clear they would not overturn a century of orthodoxy and all the burden of positive covenants to run?
Rhone v Stephens
What case confirmed the validity of periodic tenancies as a certain term?
Prudential
What case made it clear that C’s rights are only to discharge D’s obligations in mortgages?
Bristol Airport v Powdrill
What are the acquisition requirements for a charge by way of legal mortgage?
S.27(2)(f) LRA and s.52 LPA with s.1 LP(MP)A
Samuel v Jarrah Timber
Provision in mortgage contract for purchase is void
TSB v Camfield
If no proper advice given, despite solicitor’s certificate, mortgagee would be liable
How can you abolish a covenant?
Through s.84 LPA
Burgess v Rawnsley
Misunderstanding; mutual agreement
Coatsworth v Johnson
Need specific performance for equitable lease
Budd-Scott v Daniel
LC for quiet enjoyment always arises
What is an action for damages available for in leasehold covenants?
Everything except rent
Horsham Properties v Clark
Rejected possibility of unjustified interference with property rights through s.87(1) under Art. 1 Protocol 1
In what case did Lord B-W highlight that C obtains rights ‘in order to enforce the discharge of D’s obligations’?
Bristol Airport v Powdrill
why have certain attempts to use s.79 LPA failed for burden of negative FCs?
Burden does not run if the covenant is personal
Why is foreclosure essentially obsolete?
Court order needed, and court will usually order sale under s.91 LPA
What are mortgage terms subject to?
UTCCR: ‘plain and intelligible’, and if not then contra proferentum through Reg.7
Why would the outcome of London County Council v Allen be different now?
Local authorities can enforce covenants without dominant land, granted by statute
What judge in Stack preferred resulting trust?
Lord Neuberger
What is the argument about s.79(1) LPA and positive FC burden?
Doesn’t exclude burden of positive covenants being annexed