Easements, Covenants and Mortgages
Characteristics and creation of easements, benefit and burden of freehold covenants, mortgage priority, terms, powers and protections.
How to study for FLK2
Use closed-book rule anchors, realistic client facts, primary-classification ranges and an ethical decision check across every subject.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Apply the essential characteristics and express, implied, prescribed or statutory creation routes for easements.
Exam cue: Identify right, land benefited and burdened, creation, transmission and protection.
Concept 2
Determine whether benefit and burden of a freehold covenant pass at law or in equity and whether protection is effective.
Exam cue: For mortgages build a priority and enforcement timeline.
Concept 3
Apply mortgage creation, enforceability of terms and priority against competing interests.
Concept 4
Analyse lender powers and duties and protections for mortgagors and third parties.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating a personal permission as an easement.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Assuming the burden of a positive freehold covenant runs in equity like a restrictive covenant.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Memory anchors
Easements, Covenants and Mortgages: scope
Characteristics and creation of easements, benefit and burden of freehold covenants, mortgage priority, terms, powers and protections.
Easements, Covenants and Mortgages: focus 1
Apply the essential characteristics and express, implied, prescribed or statutory creation routes for easements.
Easements, Covenants and Mortgages: focus 2
Determine whether benefit and burden of a freehold covenant pass at law or in equity and whether protection is effective.
Easements, Covenants and Mortgages: focus 3
Apply mortgage creation, enforceability of terms and priority against competing interests.
Easements, Covenants and Mortgages: focus 4
Analyse lender powers and duties and protections for mortgagors and third parties.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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