page_title: Morrells of Oxford Ltd v Oxford United Football Club
hierarchical_section_title: Morrells of Oxford Ltd v Oxford United Football Club
caption_attribution_description: The Kassam Stadium, Oxford, England.
context_page_description: Morrells of Oxford Ltd v Oxford United Football Club [2001] Ch 459 is an English land law case concerning covenants and their interpretation in a conveyance, particularly discerning and distinguishing those expressly or impliedly with no intention to bind successors — those of a personal nature, enforceable "inter partes", that is between the parties to the original deed. It concerned a restraint of trade covenant and was unlike the others surrounding it not expressed to bind all heirs and assigns.
context_section_description: Morrells of Oxford Ltd v Oxford United Football Club [2001] Ch 459 is an English land law case concerning covenants and their interpretation in a conveyance, particularly discerning and distinguishing those expressly or impliedly with no intention to bind successors — those of a personal nature, enforceable "inter partes", that is between the parties to the original deed. It concerned a restraint of trade covenant and was unlike the others surrounding it (see purposive interpretation and contextual interpretation) not expressed to bind all heirs and assigns (or other synonyms for successors in title).
caption: The Kassam Stadium and Conference Venue built 1996-2001 on Minchery Farm includes alcohol licensed areas. These, the case held, were covenant-barred only between the original parties to the covenant.
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