Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The party to whom the promise in a covenant is made.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The party to a covenant to whom the performance of its obligation is expressed to be due.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person in whose favor a
covenant is made.
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Examples
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The judges gave their services for nothing, and, for once, released from all their own trammels, set to work to do substantial justice between landlord and tenant, personalty and realty, the life interest and the remainder, covenantor and covenantee, after a fashion which excited the admiration and won the confidence of the whole City.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Only privies in estate with the original covenantee can have the benefit of covenants for title.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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In general the benefit of covenants which cannot be likened to grants, and the burden of which does not fall on land, is confined to the covenantee and those who sustain his persona, namely, his executor or heir.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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It has already been shown that covenants for title, like warranties, went only to successors of the original covenantee.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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It also appears that the plaintiff was trying to stand on two grounds; first, privity, as descendant and assign of the covenantee; second, that the service was attached to the manor by covenant or by prescription, and that he could maintain covenant as tenant of the manor, from whichever source the duty arose.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Some have supposed this privity to be tenure; some, an interest of the covenantee in the land of the covenantor; and so on.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Where either by tradition or good sense the burden of the obligation would be said, elliptically, to fall on the land of the covenantor, the creation of such a burden is in theory a grant or transfer of a partial interest in [405] that land to the covenantee.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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It was held that he could not recover, because he was not privy in estate with the original covenantee.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Pakenham brought covenant as heir of the covenantee against a prior, for breach of a covenant made by the defendant's predecessor with the plaintiff's great-grandfather, that the prior and convent should sing every week in a chapel in his manor, for him and his servants.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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If the covenant was to be approached from the side of contract, the heir was party to it as representing the covenantee.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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