Is a covenant to pay compensation for injury done to the land a borderline case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Vancouver (City) v. Beaufort Properties Ltd., 1982 CanLII 577 (BC SC):

That a covenant to pay compensation for injury done to the land — a borderline case — was placed in the latter category in Martyn v. Williams, supra, does not necessarily deny the validity of this distinction.

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