Legally Speaking Building Schemes – Consequences of Failing to Obtain Building Plan Approval #375

In carrying out their duties, licensees, lawyers and notaries give their clients copies of titles, registered building schemes and other restrictive covenants and, in doing so, often duplicate them…

Legally Speaking Warranty By Numbered Company – Bankruptcy – Licensee’s Liability for Failure to Advise Seller to Take Security for the Warranty; Private, Not Public Rights of Way and Paragraph 9 of the Contract Of Purchase and Sale #317

What is a licensee’s duty of care to a client who is negotiating the purchase of a commercial property from a numbered company that agreed to give an unsecured warranty…

Legally Speaking Building Scheme, Developer to Approve Plan, is this a Conflict of Interest? #308

A building scheme generally gives a developer the right to approve the plans for homes to be constructed upon the newly created lots…

Legally Speaking Building Scheme Restrictions #240

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of homes in the province whose titles are subject to the restrictive covenants contained in the building schemes registered at the time the subdivisions were created…

Legally Speaking Human Rights Act – Building Scheme Restriction Discriminatory #229

A trio of companies subdivided acreage into 14 lots which included an older home…

Legally Speaking Implied Warranty – Purchase of an Incomplete New Residence #226

When a buyer contracts to purchase a residence before construction of it is complete, the law implies a warranty in favour of the buyer that the work will be done in a good…

Legally Speaking Prospectus and Court Ordered Sales #80

By the time this is published, we hope that Bill 66, The Real Estate Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985,* has been proclaimed…