RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS AND EQUITABLE SERVITUDES Flashcards

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Restrictive Cov vs Equit Serv (remedy distinction)

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money damages: COVENANT AT LAW

injunction: EQUITABLE SERVITUDE

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Restrictive covenant at law (4)

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  1. intent (intend to run w/ land)
  2. notice (actual, constructive, inquiry)
  3. touch and concern (makes land more valuable and useful)
  4. privity (horizontal and vertical)
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Successor in Interest (Defendant requires both for BURDEN)

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VERTICAL– those who subseq take prop subj to covenant, must take FULL ESTATE

HORIZONTAL– original parties to the promise

  • must share int independent of covenant
  • must be conveyance btwn original
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Successor in interest (Plaintiff requires one for BENEFIT)

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VERTICAL– holder of any succeeding possessory estate may enforce benefit of promise as a covenant at law

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Covenant at law (BURDEN enforcement) (Successor in interest is D) (4)

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  1. intent
  2. notice
  3. touch and concern
  4. BOTH privities
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Covenant at law (BENEFIT enforcement) (successor in interest is P) (3)

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  1. intent
  2. touch and concern
  3. vertical privity
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Equitable serv (enforcement of BURDEN to obtain INJUNCTION) (3)

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  1. intent
  2. notice
  3. touch and concern
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Equitable serv (enforcement of BENEFIT)(2)

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  1. intent

2. touch and concern

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Reciprocal Negative servitudes or “mutual right of enforcement” (subdivisions) (2)

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  1. intent (common building plan)

2. notice

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“dedication”

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compel to use land as indicated by the reservation

ex. 10 acres reserved as park use, A sells to B with no restriction, city can compel to use this as park

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DEFENSES (to enforcement of covenant as an Equit Serv) (4)

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  1. UNCLEAN hands (P has made same use)
  2. ACQUIESCENCE ( P let neighbors do same thing on their lots)
  3. LACHES (P watched D build, only complained after)
  4. ESTOPPEL (P represented that there were no problems with Ds plan to build)
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Termination of Covenants and Equit Serv (3)

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  1. deed of release
  2. merger
  3. changed conditions (if all lots in sub are affected then the use restriction will be eliminated)
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