- Location
- Lincolnshire
The trouble with legal agreements is what happens when someone refuses to abide by it, then what do you do? Its all very well having a document that says Party A must do X, Y and Z, what can Party B do if they don't? The answer involves our learned friends, which as we all know is the short route to losing a lot of money and years of your life.
I never like legal agreements where the self interests of the parties are not aligned and one party has agreed to do all manner of things that his true self interest would make him want not to do. Because chances are somewhere down the line, self interest will reassert itself, and then there will be a big dispute which can only be settled by resorting to law.
In short just because someone signs a document agreeing all sorts of things, is no guarantee he'll do them, especially in the long run, or indeed another person who takes on the agreement will abide by it either, as an easement goes with the property.
Not much should go wrong. I'm currently laying a new 62mm pipe through my neighbours field. All welded joints and 1m deep. Pressure tested before we finish. It ought last longer than I do. No reason it should ever be mechanically damage.