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Four years ago the owner of a shopping center leased a store in the center for a 10-year term to a pharmacistfor use as a drugstore. The pharmacist established and operated a drugstore at the leased premises. The leaseincluded provisions that described the shopping center by metes and bounds; identified the entrances, parkingareas, signs, and other common facilities of the shopping center; and set out a covenant that the owner wouldnot lease any part of the shopping center to another drugstore. Last year the owner purchased a parcel of land immediately adjacent to the shopping center. That parcel wasimproved with a building that, at the time of the owner's purchase and for ten years earlier, was occupied inpart by a food supermarket and in part by a discount drugstore, under leases which the prior owner assignedto the owner. The owner reconstructed the common facilities of both shopping centers to integrate them and combine themso that, to the public, the two centers appeared as a larger single development. The pharmacist learned that the lease of the discount drugstore was about to expire and that the ownerplanned to enter into a new lease of the same space with the discount drugstore. The pharmacist protested the proposed new lease, but the owner declared his intention to go forward with it. The pharmacist brought an appropriate action to enjoin the new lease to the discount drugstore as a violationof the covenant in the pharmacist's lease. If the court finds for the owner, what will be the likely reason?

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law

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  1. The covenant does not apply to the owner's actions as he did not directly lease the space to another drugstore but bought a property which already had a lease with a drugstore.
  2. The owner's purchase and integration of the adjacent parcel of land effectively nullifies the existing covenant.
  3. The drugstore use on the adjacent parcel was in existence when the owner and the pharmacist firstentered into the lease.
  4. The discount drugstore on the adjacent parcel is not considered a 'new' lease, but a continuation of an existing one.
  5. A covenant cannot restrict the use of land not owned by the covenantor when the covenant wascreated.
  6. The owner has the right to lease any part of his property to any business, regardless of existing leases.
  7. The pharmacist did not adequately express his concerns to the owner before initiating legal action.
  8. A covenant that attempts to restrict competition is invalid as against public policy even if it runs with theland.
  9. The covenant in the pharmacist's lease can be fairly construed as to apply only to the original shoppingcenter premises.
  10. The covenant is not applicable as the shopping centers were considered separate entities at the time of the lease agreement.

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