Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The party by whom the promise in a covenant is to be carried out.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, that party to a covenant, agreement, or contract by whom the obligation expressed in it is to be performed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The party who makes a covenant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The party who makes a
covenant .
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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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According to the general opinion there must be a privity of estate between the covenantor and covenantee in the latter class of cases in order to bind the assigns of the covenantor.
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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/2/It is never necessary between covenantor and covenantee, or any other persons, except between the present owner and the original covenantee.
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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In Bromage v. Genning, a prohibition was sought in the Kings 'Bench against a suit in the marches of Wales for the specific performance of a covenant to grant a lease, and Coke said that it would subvert the intention of the covenantor, since he intends it to be at his election either to lose the damages or to make the lease.
Free New York Blog 2008
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Such articles was, fot that it was unreasonable the covenantor, who had received the money, should retaui the land; but as upon a nudum pactum there was no remedy at law, so neither was there any in equity.
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Money agreed to be laid out in land shall be taken as land, and go to the heir; and no difference wliere the money thus agreed to be laid out and settled, is deposited in the hands of trustees, and where it remains in the hands of the covenantor.
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; - ■ 1 ■ « ty, aad where tnc perron of the covenantor, and not the land, oo if H, having a term for years, devifes an annuity to J..
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199 (N) 30,000/. is covenanted to be laid oat io land; the money need not be laid oat all together upon one 'purchase; bat if laid out at several times, it is suffi - cient; and if the covenantor dies, having purchased some lands which are left to descend, this will be a sa - tisfaction pro tonic.
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