Forestview Nominees Pty Ltd v Perpetual Trustees WA Ltd

[1998] HCA 15
Judgment date
Case number
P45/1997
Before
Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne JJ
Catchwords

Real property (WA) – Torrens system – Restrictive covenant – Enforceability of – Application by successors in title of burdened land for declaratory relief that restrictive covenant not enforceable – Intention of parties to covenant to exclude enforcement of restrictive covenant by tenant of benefited land – Consistency with the doctrine in Tulk v Moxhay – Restrictive covenant enforceable.

Equity – Restrictive covenant – Principles upon which the doctrine in Tulk v Moxhay rests.

Transfer of Land Act 1893 (WA), s 129A.