page_title: Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board
hierarchical_section_title: Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board
caption_attribution_description: English: Between Low Meadows and Marsh Moss
context_page_description: Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board [1949] 2 KB 500 is an English land law and English contract law appeal decision. The case, decided by Denning LJ, confirmed positive covenants can supplant privity of contract in contracts to improve land and secondly a covenant should be implied where the contract shows an intention that the obligation would attach to the land. The case thirdly held in that context, a somewhat uncertain description of lands which was capable of being rendered certain by extrinsic evidence was sufficient to enforce the covenant.
context_section_description: Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board [1949] 2 KB 500 is an English land law and English contract law appeal decision. The case, decided by Denning LJ, confirmed positive covenants can supplant privity of contract in contracts to improve land and secondly a covenant should be implied where the contract shows an intention that the obligation would attach to the land. The case thirdly held in that context, a somewhat uncertain description of lands which was capable of being rendered certain by extrinsic evidence was sufficient to enforce the covenant.
caption: A swathe of this land flooded. Its engineered (straightened) brook had defences poorly installed. It was sown with crops which were ruined.
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