Making Land Work: Easements, Covenants and Profits à Prendre

HC 1067

Author:

The Law Commission

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Price: £38.50

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'Making Land Work: Easements, Covenants and Profits à Prendre (HC 1067)' reports the Law Commission's recommendations to simplify, modernise and enhance the law of easements, covenants and profits à prendre.

These rights are essential to the effective use of land and are relied upon by a significant proportion of property owners in England and Wales. Parts of the current law are ancient, contradictory and unfit for modern society.

The report recommends reform where it is needed, while preserving those aspects of the law that function as they should. The recommendations would not affect the validity and enforceability of existing rights.

The reforms would:

• make it possible for the benefit and burden of positive obligations to be enforced by and against subsequent owners.

• simplify and make clearer the rules relating to the acquisition of easements by prescription (or long use of land) and implication, as well as the termination of easements by abandonment.

• give greater flexibility to developers to establish rights and obligations that allow modern estates to function.

• facilitate the creation of easements that allow a substantial use of land by the benefiting owner (for example, rights to park a car).

• expand the jurisdiction of the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal to allow for the discharge and modification of easements and profits created post-reform.

Extent	257 pages	ISBN	9780102972504
Size	A4	Price	£38.50
Format	Paperback	Published	08 Jun 2011
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