Property - Covenants

Written promise to do something (or not do) on land.

• Must be:
• In writing
• For consideration
• Acknoledged

• Touches and concerns the land
• intended to run with the land
• privity of estate (only for burden to run)
• (notice for burdened land in equity) 

= Covenant that equity will enforce if there is notice

Injunction or specific performance requires equitable servitude

• When a developer subdivides a land into several parcels and some have negative covenants and others do not, covenants or equitable servitudes may be implied under the doctrine of reciproval negative serivitudes if:
• (1) a common scheme exists
• and (2) there is notice (actual, record, or inquiry) or the covenants