{"id":460,"date":"2017-01-03T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=460"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:44","slug":"servitudes-to-be-interpreted-to-promote-the-intent-of-the-parties-and-not-strictly-construed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2017\/01\/03\/servitudes-to-be-interpreted-to-promote-the-intent-of-the-parties-and-not-strictly-construed\/","title":{"rendered":"Servitudes to be interpreted to promote the intent of the parties and not strictly construed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Utah Supreme Court joined others in adopting the modern view that servitudes (restrictive covenants) should be interpreted to effectuate the intent of the parties, rather than interpreting them strictly so as\u00a0to maximize the rights of the owner of the burdened property, as the traditional rule held.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/opinions\/supopin\/Fort%20Pierce%20v.%20Shakespeare20160622.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Pierce Ind. Park Phases II, III &amp; IV Owners Ass&#8217;n v. Shakespeare<\/a>, (Utah 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah Supreme Court joined others in adopting the modern view that servitudes (restrictive covenants) should be interpreted to effectuate the intent of the parties, rather than interpreting them strictly so as\u00a0to maximize the rights of the owner of the burdened property, as the traditional rule held.\u00a0Fort Pierce Ind. Park Phases II, III &amp; IV Owners Ass&#8217;n v. Shakespeare, (Utah 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-transactions","category-servitudes"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}