Chatsworth Estates Company v Fewell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1931
Year1931
CourtChancery Division
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  • Signature of St Albans (Property) Guernsey Ltd v Stephen Peter Wragg and 19 others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 September 2017
    ...is not necessary to show that the change in character means that there is no longer any value left in the covenant at all (as in Chatsworth Estates v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch 224). I deal with these arguments in turn. The first argument The principle 26 As to the first argument, the claimant says......
  • Singh v Rainbow Court Townhouses Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 19 July 2018
    ...and effect of the alleged breaches or their circumstances. 28 Mr Strang relies principally on the law as stated by Farwell J in Chatsworth Estates Co v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch 224. In that case properties within the estate were subject to covenants, enforceable by the company, preventing their ......
  • The Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames v Warwick Salzer
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 2 December 2022
    ...has been further illuminated by the Privy Council in Singh v Rainbow Court Townhouses [2018] UKPC 19 approving the dicta in Chatsworth Estates Co v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch. 224: “It is in all cases a question of degree. It is in many ways analogous to the doctrine of estoppel, and I think it i......
  • Pamela Susan Cardwell Mills v The Estate of Philip John Partridge (Deceased) (represented by Lynette Alaine Partridge)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 5 August 2020
    ...the land so that there is no scope for direct control over what the land owner does on the land. 126 . Mr Mitchell referred to Chatsworth Estates Company v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch 224 as an authority demonstrating that acquiescence in certain breaches of covenant did not necessarily preclude su......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Restrictions on the Use of Land Preliminary Sections
    • 30 August 2016
    ...(1811) 3 Camp 80 17 Chapman’s Application, Re (1980) 42 P & CR 114, [1981] JPL 520, LT 329 Chatsworth Estates Company v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch 224 318 Chatterton v Glanford Rural District Council [1915] 3 KB 707 177 Cheltenham Builders Ltd v South Gloucestershire District Council [2003] EWH......
  • Release, Discharge or Modification of Restrictive Covenants
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Restrictions on the Use of Land Part IV. Restrictive covenants (freehold land)
    • 30 August 2016
    ...for this reason that a plaintiff lost his right to an injunction or damages arising from the 2 Chatsworth Estates Company v Fewell [1931] 1 Ch 224. In this case, in order to keep their estate purely residential, covenants existed which prevented any house being used ‘otherwise than as a pri......

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