Building Blocks: Tulk v Moxhay [1848]

In our first episode of our new Building Blocks series, which discusses the fundamental and seminal cases in Real Estate law, Richard starts off with the 1848 case of Tulk v Moxhay. This is the foundational case for restrictive covenants and covenants generally. The dispute was whether the new owner of the property could build on the land, when its use was previously agreed to be kept as pleasure gardens in an earlier transfer.

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