78 Benefit of covenants relating to land.E+W
(1)A covenant relating to any land of the covenantee shall be deemed to be made with the covenantee and his successors in title and the persons deriving title under him or them, and shall have effect as if such successors and other persons were expressed.
For the purposes of this subsection in connexion with covenants restrictive of the user of land “successors in title” shall be deemed to include the owners and occupiers for the time being of the land of the covenantee intended to be benefited.
(2)This section applies to covenants made after the commencement of this Act, but the repeal of section fifty-eight of the M1Conveyancing Act, 1881, does not affect the operation of covenants to which that section applied.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 78 excluded (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 30, s. 30(4)(a) (with ss. 2(2), 26(1)(2)); S.I. 1995/2963, art.2
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