Re Dolphin's Conveyance

Re Dolphin's Conveyance [1970] Ch 654 is an English land law case, concerning covenants.

The general legal requirement for a building scheme to exist to enable constrain certain types of development on adjoining land was on the facts satisfied as the multiple vendors were in fact common beneficiaries selling on identical legal terms and no drawing of a cogent estate plan was here necessary.

Robert Dolphin, owner of Selly Hill Estate, Birmingham, died and the plots were sold in nine conveyances.

The first four by his sisters, the last five by his nephew, all on the same legal terms, with covenants about the house type to be built on each plot.

Stamp J held that even though there was no common vendor and the estate had not been laid out prior to sale, there was a building scheme created.