Also known as: perdurably · perdurability · perpetual · enduring
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An estate or interest in land that lasts or endures indefinitely unless otherwise limited by law or agreement.
Pacific Bank grants a conservation servitude over its riverfront parcel to a land trust. Decades later the bank merges and its successor attempts to revoke the restriction. The court holds the servitude remains in force because the grant created a perdurable burden that runs with the land.
Prime Logistics forms an LLC to operate warehouses. One member dies and her heirs demand dissolution. The operating agreement is silent on duration. The court rules the LLC possesses perdurable existence and continues operating without interruption.
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Phoenix Technologies creates a limited partnership to develop software. After the general partner retires the limited partners seek to wind up the entity. The court determines the partnership has perdurable duration and may continue under new management.
Progressive Healthcare incorporates without stating a termination date in its articles. Shareholders later attempt to dissolve the company after a market downturn. The court finds the corporation possesses perdurable duration by default and rejects the dissolution effort.
The city condemns waterfront land for a public park under its eminent-domain power. Former owners later claim the public use has ended and seek return of the property. The court holds the city's interest is perdurable once the taking is completed for a valid public purpose.
A railroad loses a strip of land to street widening. The city argues compensation should cover only temporary disruption. The court awards damages measured by the full, perdurable diminution in the railroad's property value caused by the permanent taking.
No. Perdurable duration means the interest continues indefinitely unless terminated by operation of law, agreement, or other legal mechanism. A conservation servitude remains in force across successive owners because its perdurable character prevents automatic expiration.
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The LLC continues in existence without dissolution. Its perdurable character supplies ongoing legal personality separate from any individual member, allowing operations to proceed under the remaining members or new management.
Yes. The default rule grants every corporation perdurable duration unless the articles expressly provide a shorter period. When the articles are silent, the corporation continues indefinitely.
Yes. Because the servitude is perdurable, the burden runs with the land and binds successors regardless of whether they participated in the original transaction.
The partnership possesses perdurable duration by default. It continues as a distinct entity until a lawful event causes dissolution or termination under the statute.
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