contract-law property breach-of-contract animals
Can seller of property impose conditions on how it is used by the new owner?
<p>When I sell a domestic animal, can I impose a condition that the animal is kept as a pet and never killed for meat? If the new owner breaches this condition, will I be able to hold them to account?</p>

<p>This would be analogous to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building" rel="nofollow noreferrer">listed buildings</a>: you can own them but you can't demolish or alter them significantly.</p>

<p>Jurisdiction: any English-speaking country.</p>

<p>You generally have <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract" rel="nofollow noreferrer">freedom of contract</a> so you can put whatever conditions you like on the sale.</p>

<p>In practice, a court would probably consider such a term a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_contract" rel="nofollow noreferrer">collateral contract</a> so that a breach would not invalidate the main contract.</p>

<p>For your particular example, enforcement would be problematic: if they breach the term, what damage have you suffered?</p>
