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Ferris, G. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0574-1978,
2012.
Restrictive covenants in Xanadu.
Liverpool Law Review, 33 (2), pp. 77-89.
ISSN 1572-8625
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Abstract
Legal scholarship is naturally inclined towards explanations and justifications of contemporary law. In the case of restrictive covenants and building schemes this has led to a distorted perception of the historical record, as revealed in recorded case reports dating from the nineteenth century. It is argued that the restrictive covenant had its historical genesis not in a response to industrialisation and mass urbanisation, but in the developments of resort towns in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as a response to the needs of land developers. Furthermore, it is argued that a better historical understanding of these origins illuminates contemporary problems concerned with the adaptability of law and the potential roles of law in development.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Alternative Title: | The restrictive covenant in Xanadu. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree" S. T. Coleridge, 1816 [running title] | ||||
| Publication Title: | Liverpool Law Review | ||||
| Creators: | Ferris, G. | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| Date: | 2012 | ||||
| Volume: | 33 | ||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1572-8625 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Law School | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:21 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:27 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11670 |
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