Legal Technicalities

In the run up to exchanging contracts on the flat, the boyfriend and I have received huge bundles of papers from our solicitor that required our attention. One of these was an old deed of covenant from 1860, when the building housing the flat was put up. This worried me a bit to start with, as the flat is near a large church and I'd read that ecclesiastical covenants requiring property owners to contribute to the maintenance of local religious buildings are more common than people realise. Luckily it wasn't anything remotely like that. It set out restrictions on what activities could be carried out in the building. Among other things we are not allowed to skin dogs, gut cats or boil horse flesh on the premises. So that's my top three home business ideas out of the picture then :-)