When construing restrictive covenants under the Torrens system, evidence of similarly worded covenants in other instruments of transfer from the same parent title is inadmissible, even where those transfers are identified in the parent title. However, a cancelled parent title expressly referred to in the covenants and retained by the Registrar on the Register is admissible. The composite phrase 'for himself his executors administrators and transferees' in a restrictive covenant is apt to describe a class including derivative transferees and is not limited to direct transferees of the original covenantor. The question whether the contra proferentem rule applies to restrictive covenants under the Torrens system was left open.
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