House burden

I am acting in the sale of a property with a registered title in respect of which the first entry in the charges register is to say that 'the property is subject to such restrictive covenants as may have been imposed thereon before 1963 and are still subsisting and capable of being enforced.'In the current conveyancing climate, this has resulted in a request from the purchaser's solicitor for indemnity insurance, and one has to question why the Land Registry feels obliged to insert such entries on to the register when no restrictive covenants are disclosed in the title deeds that are put forward for registration.This must inevitably be a national problem, and it will be interesting to know how other practitioners are meeting yet another burden in the conveyancing process and on a secondary basis, how clients who pay the expenses react to the supposed miracle of registered conveyancing.VT Jordan, Carvers, Hereford