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· 3/4/1996

Timberstone Homeowner's Ass'n v. Summerlin

Citations

  • 467 S.E.2d 330
  • 266 Ga. 322
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 876
  • 1996 Ga. LEXIS 99

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • properly recorded restrictive covenant to pay maintenance fees was binding on subsequent purchaser with notice, even though not stated in his deed
  • “Where a restrictive covenant is recorded, the purchaser is charged with legal notice of the covenant, even if it is not stated in his own deed.”
  • “[wjhether the assessment obligation is a covenant running with the land or an equitable servitude, it is clear that [the] restrictive covenant ... is an enforceable covenant against a purchaser with notice”
  • “It is only necessary that the covenant concern the land or its use, and that the subsequent grantee has notice of it. Covenants are so enforced on the principle of preventing a party having knowledge of the just rights of another from defeating such rights.”
  • restrictive covenant enforceable against a purchaser with notice
  • restrictive covenant enforceable against a purchaser with notice

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Judges: Hunstein

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