Woodall v Clifton

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1905
CourtCourt of Appeal
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29 cases
  • Re Distributors and Warehousing Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
  • Souglides v Tweedie and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 March 2012
    ...1 Ch 54). In contrast, an option entitling a tenant to buy the freehold had to comply with the rule against perpetuities. Thus, in Woodall v Clifton [1905] 2 Ch 257, the Court of Appeal said (at 279): "The covenant is aimed at creating, at a future time, the position of vendor and purchaser......
  • Weg Motors Ltd v Hales
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 July 1961
    ...construed, a covenant to renew a lease and therefore valid. As Lord Justice Romer observed in the case of ( Woodall v. Clifton 1905, 2 Chancery, p. 257 at p. 279) "a covenant to renew has been held to run with the reversion, though the fact that a covenant to renew should be held to run wit......
  • Kumar v Dunning
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 April 1987
    ...land. 42 Mr Blackburn cited a number of cases which, he submitted, were inconsistent with this conclusion. He submitted, in reliance on Woodall v. Clifton (1905) 2 Ch. 257, that an option to purchase the freehold contained in a lease did not run with the land. In that case, an assignee of t......
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