Except to the extent inconsistent with the Condominium Act, the principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations, the law of real property and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, receivership, substantial performance or other validating or invalidating cause supplement the provisions of that act.
History: Laws 1982, ch. 27, § 7.
Compiler's notes. — This section is substantially similar to § 1-108 of the Uniform Condominium Act.
COMMISSIONERS' COMMENT
1. This act displaces existing law relating to condominiums and other law only as stated by specific sections and by reasonable implication therefrom. Moreover, unless specifically displaced by this statute, common-law rights are retained. The listing given in this section is merely an illustration: no listing could be exhaustive.
2. The bracketed language concerning unincorporated associations should be deleted in the event the enacting state requires incorporation of a unit owners' association. See the parallel language contained in § 3-101 [47-7C-1 NMSA 1978].
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 15A Am. Jur. 2d Condominiums and Cooperative Apartments §§ 9, 11.
Erection of condominium as violation of restrictive covenant forbidding erection of apartment houses, 65 A.L.R.3d 1212.
31 C.J.S. Estates § 153 et seq.
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